Category:Romantic

Ro*man"tic, a. Etym: [f. romantique, fr. Of. romant. See romance.]

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.