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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
Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Laird plays Shannon, the naïve and fiercely romantic daughter of the area’s top crime family.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2025
For instance, Paros is recommended for groups that want to party, Maldives is for the romantics, and Bali is for those who crave relaxation.
—Raquel Reichard, Refinery29, 6 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Six seasons later, the foursome experienced countless romantic ups and downs — and one surprising pairing ultimately captured viewer's hearts as one of TV’s most beloved couples.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Laird plays Shannon, the naïve and fiercely romantic daughter of the area’s top crime family.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
Away from the nonstop publicity machinery, Mansfield is revealed to be a ferocious romantic who sometimes suffered the abuse of domineering and violent men.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2025
For instance, Paros is recommended for groups that want to party, Maldives is for the romantics, and Bali is for those who crave relaxation.
—Raquel Reichard, Refinery29, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for romantic
Adjective
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People buy sporty, exotic cars to be noticed.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Then, there’s exotic goods, which are little gifts which must be selectively (and repeatedly) offered to all the supporting cast individually to forge relationships (and even romance a few).—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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In vacuum and one-sixth gravity, lubricants boil off, moving parts behave differently, and remote or autonomous operation is necessary because of the time delay between Earth and Moon, which makes real-time teleoperation impractical.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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Unfortunately, some of these tests are impractical and risk causing real-world harm.—
Matthew Hutson,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Sep. 2025
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From vengeful resurrections to satanic rituals, shoplifters waging war on capitalism to secret cults, shadow selves to harrowing births, these genre-defying films crown the Dolls as auteurs, protagonists, dreamers, and disruptors.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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My friend, the late Dr. Dorothy I. Height, once described me as a dreamer with a shovel in my hands.—
John Hope Bryant,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The story becomes less of a character study of the strange ways in which grief manifests and more about the escalating hijinks of a lie that takes on a wild life of its own.—
Lindsey Bahr,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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The options were powerful, immortal, stranger or wanderer.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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Edward, played by Louis Partridge, was the youngest of the Guinness siblings and played in the series as the most idealistic and ambitious of the heirs.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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In a similar vein, pardon the pun, comes this Frank Wildhorn gothic musical about a Victorian-era doctor with two personalities, one an idealistic doctor, the other an evil murderer.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Corporate power has shredded the netting of the World Wide Web, a phrase that now sounds risibly utopian.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Godwin’s utopian story didn’t seem to match the evidence.—
Roy Scranton,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Tackle the eight-mile Summit Trail up Big Mountain for views of the colorful landscape below.—
Dave Parfitt,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
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Wisps of steam add to the ambiance of the colorful dining room lined with communal tables and hanging fish sculptures.—
Bao Ong,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Sep. 2025
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His performance here most recalls his tragicomic portrayal of John Brown, the heroic but unhinged abolitionist whose quixotic raid on Harpers Ferry helped catalyze the Civil War, in Showtime’s 2020 adaptation of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Sep. 2025
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The resulting film is equal parts shaggy, quixotic road movie and Malickian spiritual ponderance, gazing at the celestial patterns above while also too drunk on them to see the shallowness of their promise.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Romantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romantic. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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