Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - romantic
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Romantic
romantic
(romantics) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Someone who is romantic or does romantic things says and does things that make their wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend feel special and loved. When we’re together, all he talks about is business. I wish he were more romantic... ADJ 2. Romantic means connected with sexual love. He was not interested in a romantic relationship with Ingrid. ADJ: ADJ n • romantically We are not romantically involved. ADV 3. A romantic play, film, or story describes or represents a love affair. It is a lovely romantic comedy, well worth seeing. ...romantic novels. ADJ: ADJ n 4. If you say that someone has a romantic view or idea of something, you are critical of them because their view of it is unrealistic and they think that thing is better or more exciting than it really is. He has a romantic view of rural society... ADJ: usu ADJ n c darkgreen]disapproval • A romantic is a person who has romantic views. You’re a hopeless romantic. ? realist N-COUNT 5. Something that is romantic is beautiful in a way that strongly affects your feelings. Seacliff House is one of the most romantic ruins in Scotland. ADJ • romantically ...the romantically named, but very muddy, Cave of the Wild Horses. ADV 6. Romantic means connected with the artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which was concerned with the expression of the individual’s feelings and emotions. ...the poems and prose of the English romantic poets. ADJ: ADJ n
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I. adjective Etymology: French romantique, from obsolete romant romance, from Old French romanz Date: 1650 1. consisting of or resembling a romance 2. having no basis in fact ; imaginary 3. impractical in conception or plan ; visionary 4. a. marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized b. often capitalized of, relating to, or having the characteristics of ~ism c. of or relating to music of the 19th century characterized by an emphasis on subjective emotional qualities and freedom of form; also of or relating to a composer of this music 5. a. having an inclination for romance ; responsive to the appeal of what is idealized, heroic, or adventurous b. marked by expressions of love or affection c. conducive to or suitable for lovemaking 6. of, relating to, or constituting the part of the hero especially in a light comedy • ~ally adverb II. noun Date: 1679 1. a ~ person, trait, or component 2. capitalized a ~ writer, artist, or composer ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 of, characterized by, or suggestive of an idealized, sentimental, or fantastic view of reality; remote from experience (a romantic picture; a romantic setting). 2 inclined towards or suggestive of romance in love (a romantic woman; a romantic evening; romantic words). 3 (of a person) imaginative, visionary, idealistic. 4 a (of style in art, music, etc.) concerned more with feeling and emotion than with form and aesthetic qualities; preferring grandeur or picturesqueness to finish and proportion. b (also Romantic) of or relating to the 18th-19th-c. romantic movement or style in the European arts. 5 (of a project etc.) unpractical, fantastic. --n. 1 a romantic person. 2 a romanticist. Derivatives romantically adv. Etymology: romant tale of chivalry etc. f. OF f. romanz ROMANCE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. романтик 2. выспренние чувства; пышные, высокопарные речи 3. черты, особенности и т. п. рыцарского романа 4. черты, свойственные романтизму 5. романтический, романтичный romantic youth —- романтичный юноша romantic adventure —- романтическое приключение 6. романтический, относящийся к романтизму romantic poetry —- романтическая поэзия R. movement —- лит. романтизм 7. фантастический, нереальный (о проекте и т. п.) 8. вымышленный, воображаемый ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. adj. 1) романтичный; романтический 2) фантастический (о проекте и т.п.) 3) вымышленный, воображаемый Syn: see sentimental 2. noun 1) романтик 2) pl. высокопарные речи; выспренние чувства ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 adj 1 »SHOWING LOVE« showing strong feelings of love ("Tom always sends me red roses on my birthday." "How romantic!") 2 »CONNECTED WITH LOVE« connected with feelings of love or with a loving relationship (It's not a romantic relationship - they're just business partners.) 3 »BEAUTIFUL« beautiful in a way that affects your emotions and makes you think of love or adventure (a romantic village nestling at the foot of the mountains) 4 »NOT PRACTICAL« not practical, and basing your actions too much on an imagined idea of the world (romantic notions about becoming a famous actress) 5 »STORY/FILM« a romantic story or film is about love (a romantic comedy) 6 Romantic art/literature etc art or literature that is based on the ideas of romanticism - romantically adv ~2 n 1 someone who shows strong feelings of love and likes doing things that are connected with love such as buying flowers, presents etc (Oh, Andy, you're such a romantic!) 2 someone who is not practical, and bases their ideas too much on an imagined idea of the world (an incurable romantic) 3 also Romantic a writer, painter etc, whose work is based on romanticism ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1659, from Fr. romantique, from M.Fr. romant "a romance," oblique case of O.Fr. romanz "verse narrative" (see romance). As a style, opposed to classical since early 19c. Romanticism first recorded 1803 as "a romantic idea;" generalized sense of "a tendency toward romantic ideas" is first recorded 1840. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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