Romance vs. Romantic
Romancenoun
A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
Romancenoun
An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
Romancenoun
A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
Romancenoun
Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
Romancenoun
A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
Romancenoun
A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
Romancenoun
An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
Romancenoun
An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
Romancenoun
A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
Romancenoun
(music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.
Romanceverb
(transitive) To woo; to court.
Romanceverb
(intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
Romanceverb
(intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
Romancenoun
A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
Romancenoun
An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
Romancenoun
A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
Romancenoun
The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).
Romancenoun
A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
Romancenoun
a love affair, esp. one in which the lovers display their deep affection openly, by romantic gestures.
Romanceadjective
Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
Romanceverb
To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.
Romancenoun
a relationship between two lovers
Romancenoun
an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
Romancenoun
the group of languages derived from Latin
Romancenoun
a story dealing with love
Romancenoun
a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
Romanceverb
make amorous advances towards;
Romanceverb
have a love affair with
Romanceverb
talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions;
Romanceverb
tell romantic or exaggerated lies;
Romanceadjective
relating to languages derived from Latin;
Romanticadjective
Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.
Romanticadjective
(obsolete) Fictitious, imaginary.
Romanticadjective
Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
Romanticadjective
Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
Romanticadjective
Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
Romanticadjective
alternative form of Romantic
Romanticnoun
A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance).
Romanticnoun
A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).
Romanticadjective
Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.
Romanticadjective
Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.
Romanticadjective
Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets.
Romanticadjective
Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; - applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.
Romanticnoun
a soulful or amorous idealist
Romanticnoun
an artist of the romantic period or someone influenced by romanticism
Romanticadjective
belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic movement in the arts;
Romanticadjective
expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance;
Romanticadjective
not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic;
