Sentimental vs. Romantic

Sentimentaladjective

Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.

Sentimentaladjective

Derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment.

Sentimentaladjective

Romantic.

Sentimentaladjective

Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.

Sentimentaladjective

Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; - often in a reproachful sense.

Sentimentaladjective

Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.

Sentimentaladjective

given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality

Sentimentaladjective

effusively or insincerely emotional;

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;