romantic
romantic
/rəʊˈmæntɪk/
1 connected with or about love or a sexual relationship
a romantic candlelit dinner
a romantic comedy
romantic stories/fiction
I'm not interested in a romantic relationship.
It wasn't even until a hundred or so years ago that the concept of romantic love in marriage gained any real popularity.
Like every actor starting out in the business, he longed to play dashing romantic leads.
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adverb
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2 (of people) showing feelings of love
Why don't you ever give me flowers? I wish you'd be more romantic.
You're getting quite romantic in your old age!
I'm hopelessly romantic and dreamy.
3 beautiful in a way that makes you think of love or feel strong emotions
romantic music
romantic mountain scenery
romantic images of deserted beaches
It sounded romantic and exciting to work in the Walled City, but few stuck it more than a few weeks.
4 having an attitude to life where imagination and the emotions are especially important; not looking at situations in a realistic way
a romantic view of life
When I was younger, I had romantic ideas of becoming a writer.
a romantic notion of living off the land
5 Romantic usually before noun used to describe literature, music or art, especially of the nineteenth century, that is about strong feelings, imagination and a return to nature, rather than reason, order and intellectual ideas the Romantic movement
Keats is one of the greatest Romantic poets.
romantic
/rəʊˈmæntɪk/
1 a person who is emotional and has a lot of imagination, and who has ideas and hopes that may not be realistic
a hopeless romantic
He was a romantic at heart and longed for adventure.
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phrases
be a romantic at heart
2 Romantic a writer, a musician or an artist who writes, etc. in the style of Romanticism
Word Origin
mid 17th cent. (referring to the characteristics of romance in a narrative): from archaic romaunt ‘tale of chivalry’, from an Old French variant of romanz, based on Latin Romanicus ‘Roman’. (see romance).
ロマンチックな
I wish my husband were more romantic. He never does anything special for me. 夫がもっとロマンチックならいいのに。わたしのために特別なことを全然してくれない。
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