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say it: roh-MAN-tik
romantic is an adjective and noun meaning "belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts". It carries 5 recorded senses.
belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
“romantic poetry”
not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
“as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood”
“a romantic disregard for money”
“a wild-eyed dream of a world state”
a soulful or amorous idealist
an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for romantic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.