romantic
romantic is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.
- 2.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.
- 3.Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. See Sentimental. The romantic drama. See under Drama.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- affectibility
- alive
- aromatic
- chicken
- core
- die
- enthusiastic
- excitability
- excitable
- expressive
- fastidious
- gushing
- have
- heart
- hearted
- highflying
- impassionable
- impressibility
- impressible
- impressionable
- inmost
- lively
- mettlesome
- mobile
- mobility
- moral
- nerve
- pain
- physical
- place
- point
- pour
- quick
- raw
- rose
- salt
- sensibility
- sensible
- sensibleness
- sensibly
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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