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romantic

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1. romantic - Noun

2. romantic - Adjective

3. romantic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.

Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.

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.

Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. André Maurois

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese. Anthony Bourdain

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. Ben Affleck

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. Edward Abbey

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter. Katharine Hepburn

A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!" M. R. James

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