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romantic

romantic

65 6.9
Relating to the late 1700s and early 1800s art movement that valued emotion and nature
  • adjective
  • /roʊˈmæntɪk/
  • Literature
translation icon : romántico
  • His poetry reflects the romantic ideals of emotion and individualism that characterized the movement.
  • romantic movement
  • romantic era
  • romantic poetry

And this is this poem is very much a, a manifesto of romantic poetry.

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Examples

  • Arnold's poem is romantic, about England, history, faith, love.

  • Is there a "romantic" character to your friendship?

  • I never really thought of that as a romantic story before.

  • Maybe the most romantic place on earth.

  • For they wanted a fine, romantic story to tell in the years to come.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • I take it you must be the expert on the romantic movement in South America.

  • But he spoke Russian all the time and it just sounded so romantic.

  • In addition to being consumers of Romantic literature, southerners also produced it.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Young and gallant, he was strolling one day amid romantic groves when a shower came up.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • You should hear my father read romantic poetry out loud sometimes: Shakespeare's sonnets, Browning, Swinburne.

    Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

romantical
vsromantic
  • Archaic
8.6

Relating to art and writing from the 1800s that focus on feeling and nature

emphasizes inspiration strong emotion and individual expression instead
romanticistic
vsromantic
  • Literature
8.6

Showing strong feeling and rich imagination like Romantic art

focuses on the movement while highlighting its inspiration and individualism
ultraromantic
vsromantic
  • Literature
7.9

Having very strong love feelings and showing them in a dramatic way

describes the movement in its original typical emotional and individual style

Compounds

A private meal for two to create a loving, special mood

A short trip for a couple to spend time alone and feel close

Romantic Movement
  • Literature
1 7.5

A movement in art and writing that values strong feeling and nature over reason

romantic realism
  • Literature
1 7.8

A style of art and writing that mixes feeling and real-life detail

6.8

A short playful meeting between lovers that is sexual or romantic

How Realistic

realist
4 5.3
pictorialist
  • Specialized
8.6
idealist
33 5.0
romantic
  • Literature
65 6.9

Surface Forms

romantic positive
romanticer comparative
romanticest superlative

Morphology

romantic = romance (semi-transparent) = romance + ic

Formed regularly from 'romance' + '-ic', but the meaning refers specifically to the historical Romantic Movement, which is a specialized extension not obvious from the base alone.

Etymology

Romantic for the art movement also comes from romance, because artists wanted the same sense of 'wonder', feeling, and imagination found in those old stories. So romantic art and music focus on emotion, nature, and personal freedom.