romanticist

one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world those romanticists who seem to be perpetually surprised by mean or criminal behavior Synonyms Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealizer, ideologue (also idealogue), romantic, idealist, utopian, visionaryRelated Words emotionalist, sentimentalist; daydreamer, fantasizer, woolgatherer; Micawber, optimist, Pollyanna; do-gooder, reformer; perfectionist; doctrinaire, theorist, thinkerNear Antonyms cynic, defeatist, pessimist; empiric, empiricistAntonyms hardnose, pragmatist, realist