Word Meanings - ROMANTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more

Additional info about word: ROMANTIC

1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such a persuasion South. Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men have represented as chimerical and romantic. Addison. 2. Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind. 3. 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. 4. Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. Syn. -- Sentimental; fanciful; fantastic; fictitious; extravagant; wild; chimerical. See Sentimental. The romantic drama. See under Drama.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROMANTIC)

• Heroic
• Brave
• undaunted
• chivalrous
• daring
• romantic
• gallant
• fearless
• courageous
• intrepid
• dauntless
• Imaginative
• Creative
• conceptive
• ideal
• poetical
• inventive
• original
• Poetical
• Metrical
• rythmic
• versified
• lyric
• rhyming
• imaginative
• creative
• fictitious
• dreamy
• flighty
• Sentimental
• Didactic
• moral
• instructive
• Visionary
• Fanciful
• chimerical
• baseless
• shadowy
• imaginary
• unreal
• fabulous

Related words: (words related to ROMANTIC)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• MORALIST
  1. One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison. 2. One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules;
• RHYMERY
  The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• IMAGINARY
  Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity
• INTREPIDLY
  In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• GALLANTLY
  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• MORALIZE
  1. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak. 2. To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend
• UNDAUNTABLE
  Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable. Bp. Hall.
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• MORALIZATION
  1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse. 2. Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• DARE
  To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they
• ANEMOMETRIC; ANEMOMETRICAL
  Of or pertaining to anemometry.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• ISOPERIMETRICAL
  Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• DIAMETRICALLY
  In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
• CEDARN
  Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
• GENDARMERY
  The body of gendarmes.