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as in exotic
excitingly or mysteriously unusual
she dreamed of meeting a tall, romantic stranger who would introduce her to a life of adventure
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as in impractical
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
a workshop intended to disabuse would-be innkeepers of the romantic notion that running a bed-and-breakfast is easy
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as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
she's a hopeless romantic who believes that her one true love is somewhere waiting to be found
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Recent Examples of romantic
Taylor Crumpton, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Goggins is portraying Harding and Pullman will be Caldwell with Biel portraying Beryl Knauth, Batso’s romantic partner and a key pillar in the Yosemite climbing community.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Emma John, AFAR Media, 24 June 2025
Her understanding and appreciation of the genre is a dream come true for romantics who know that Mr. Darcy isn’t the ultimate prize when an independent woman seeks happiness and companionship.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
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Adjective
When asked about the perfect wedding spell trend, Tee remarks that customers still ask for love spells, but the impetus is more often a desire for retention, since financial stress can negatively affect romantic relationships.
—Taylor Crumpton, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Goggins is portraying Harding and Pullman will be Caldwell with Biel portraying Beryl Knauth, Batso’s romantic partner and a key pillar in the Yosemite climbing community.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
With so many Queen Anne and Regency buildings, this whole area screams period drama: channel your inner romantic with a visit to a historic home like Keats House (where poet John Keats lived) or Fenton House, with its picturesque walled garden.
—Emma John, AFAR Media, 24 June 2025
Her understanding and appreciation of the genre is a dream come true for romantics who know that Mr. Darcy isn’t the ultimate prize when an independent woman seeks happiness and companionship.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for romantic
Adjective
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Green Bay’s pass rushers weren’t good enough, so Hafley resorted to exotic pressures featuring the likes of linebacker Edgerrin Cooper or safety Xavier McKinney as one of four pass rushers while defensive linemen dropped into coverage.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
29 Aug. 2025
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The blast furnace of volcanoes has fallen silent, replaced by birdsong trilling from the branches and echoing through a garden of exotic stone.—
Roger Naylor,
AZCentral.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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United fitting their best player, their most promising academy graduate and a new, £200million ($270m) front three into the same line-up suddenly looks entirely impractical — at least in this system.—
Mark Critchley,
New York Times,
25 Aug. 2025
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But Jeff Weinberg, an NBOA board member and president of Drexel Properties, said the ordinance’s goal of getting tenants, often strangers, to come together and buy a home is impractical.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Aug. 2025
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Continue To Dream At the heart of every nonprofit is a desire for transformative change—a testament to the dreamers and visionaries who brave challenges in pursuit of a better world.—
Rachelle Rutherford,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Her father was a dreamer with oversized optimism who saw possible success around every corner, even as his debts piled up and his taxes went unpaid by choice.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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That leaves fiscal hawks in a strange position.—
Taylor Millard,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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In a viral TikTok video, a group of ducks seems to have developed a strange obsession with a dachshund chilling out in the grass, and internet users can't cope with the hilarious footage.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Hope, set over one year in 2013, tells the story of the Greenspans, who are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic and idealistic suburb west of Boston.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
30 Aug. 2025
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The principles aren’t fluffy manifestos or idealistic dreams.—
Steve Denning,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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But to envision Mars as some sort of utopian substitute for Earth is truly delusional.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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The cottage retains its utopian squalor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Tommy and re-united ex-wife Angela (Ali Larter) will continue with colorful combustion.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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On the Cielo Point Lawn, there’s a variety of family activities, including a caricature artist, a tie-dye station to create colorful T-shirts, watermelon eating contests, and more.—
Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Sep. 2025
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There’s a quixotic gallantry to appealing to a saner conservative and looking ahead to a post-Trump American politics.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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But Cruz’s quixotic effort did succeed in a couple of ways.—
David M. Drucker,
Mercury News,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Romantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romantic. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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