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1
excitingly or mysteriously unusual
- she dreamed of meeting a tall, romantic stranger who would introduce her to a life of adventure
Synonyms for romantic
- bizarro,
- exotic,
- fantastic
- (also fantastical),
- glamorous
- (also glamourous),
- marvelous
- (or marvellous),
- outlandish,
- strange
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2
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
Synonyms for romantic
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- hopeful,
- optimistic,
- Pollyannaish
- (also Pollyannish),
- rosy,
- upbeat
- doctrinaire,
- ideological
- (also ideologic)
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romantic
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of romantic (Entry 2 of 2)
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
Synonyms for romantic
- Don Quixote,
- dreamer,
- fantast,
- idealist,
- idealizer,
- ideologue
- (also idealogue),
- romanticist,
- utopian,
- visionary
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“Romantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romantic. Accessed 26 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of romantic was in 1650
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