| romant | A romaunt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| 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. Characterised by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. Synonym: sentimental, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, extravagant, wild, chimerical. Origin: F. Romantique, fr. OF. Romant. See Romance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romantical | 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. Characterised by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. Synonym: sentimental, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, extravagant, wild, chimerical. Origin: F. Romantique, fr. OF. Romant. See Romance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romantically | In a romantic manner. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romanticism | A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medival forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style. "He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo-classicism in poetry, and to have been thus unconsciously the founder of romanticism." (Lowell) Origin: CF. It. Romanticismo, F. Romantisme, romanticisme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romanticist | One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| romanticness | The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |