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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
Sara Liss, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
March 21 - April 19) Ready for a romantic revolution?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Greg Grandin
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
This ancient practice has been a source of guidance and meaning for people from all walks of life, not just mystics and starry-eyed romantics.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
Dōma is a great spot for a romantic night out, and Otto and Pepe offers a genuinely fun pasta counter experience.
—Sara Liss, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
March 21 - April 19) Ready for a romantic revolution?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
Later, European romantics would use the word sublime to describe the sensation evoked by confrontation with the grandeur and terror of nature, its existential enormity.
—Greg Grandin
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
This ancient practice has been a source of guidance and meaning for people from all walks of life, not just mystics and starry-eyed romantics.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for romantic
Adjective
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The result is bright, exotic, and joyfully subversive, proving that even the darkest wood can burn so bright.—
Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
16 Oct. 2025
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One of her father’s projects was creating Shoemaker’s Farm, an orchard on Traylor Road in Ramona filled with common and exotic fruit trees.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This made real-time speech recognition impractical.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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Stanley, the spokesman for WSPA, said the refinery rules and other measures were impractical.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
10 Oct. 2025
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Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson spent his leisure time writing down the strange new lyrics in his journal.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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The place was a dump, with paint chipping from the ceilings, floors slanted at strange angles, rodent droppings situated along the floorboards, and paper-thin walls that welcomed in bitter winter air.—
Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Venus is extremely content in idealistic Libra.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
14 Oct. 2025
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For more than a century, people have wondered if the city is ungovernable; with the exception of Fiorello La Guardia, who had New Deal money raining down on him, every idealistic leader who has been elected mayor has left City Hall in some way battered by it.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Commissioned by Lincoln Center, the solarpunk narrative explores themes of survival, climate reckoning, and generational power struggles aboard a floating utopian colony in the Pacific Ocean.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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Ramírez planted the flag in the infield grass before Slider grabbed it, engaged with a sea of fans who didn’t want to abandon the utopian setting at the ballpark, and then handed it to David Fry.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Grand Slam winners get a colorful Grand Slam Award sticker.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Oct. 2025
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Hipp evokes an opulent playhouse, with a bold palette, swathes of rich velvet, and plenty of colorful art.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
14 Oct. 2025
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Many of Herzog’s films capture that sense of a quixotic, even bizarre quest, an antihero searching for some kind of truth that may be obvious only to himself.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 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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“Romantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romantic. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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