romantic
- adjective
- /roʊˈmæntɪk/
- Literature
- 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.
- And this is this poem is very much a, a manifesto of romantic poetry.
- You're, you're seeing people use Satan as depicted in Romantic era literature by people like Byron, Percy Shelley and Natal France.
- That created the great provenance of British romantic parks.
Examples
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Arnold's poem is romantic, about England, history, faith, love.
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Is there a "romantic" character to your friendship?
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I never really thought of that as a romantic story before.
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Maybe the most romantic place on earth.
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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.
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But he spoke Russian all the time and it just sounded so romantic.
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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
Relating to art and writing from the 1800s that focus on feeling and nature
Showing strong feeling and rich imagination like Romantic art
Having very strong love feelings and showing them in a dramatic way
Compounds
- Literature
A movement in art and writing that values strong feeling and nature over reason
- Literature
A style of art and writing that mixes feeling and real-life detail
How Realistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.