0 relating to love or a close loving relationship:
She has a romantic idea of what it's like to be a struggling young artist.
We thought that Egypt was an incredibly romantic country.
I suppose he is quite romantic - he sends me flowers on my birthday and tells me I'm looking beautiful and so on.
You used to be so romantic, but now you never tell me that you love me.
1 someone who is not practical and has ideas that are not related to real life:
2 relating to a style of art, music, and literature, popular in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, that deals with the beauty of nature and human emotions:
3 someone who follows the late 18th and early 19th century ideas of Romanticism, or who creates art, music, or literature in the Romantic style:
He traces art history through the Romantics and Daumier and Degas and then onto Picasso.
The German Romantics emphasized the uniqueness of each intimate experience.
4 relating to love or to an affectionate, loving relationship:
The Romantics believed in man's natural goodness and the call of individuals to develop their personality to the full.
The artists whom we think of as Romantics or Expressionists may be inclined to believe that form and space have no fixed identity.
It was the Romantics who first insisted that a whole variety of artistic manners and modes could be beautiful, so long as they were authentic.
He is the archetypal Romantic hero.
I'd planned a romantic evening together, but circumstances conspired against it - friends arrived unexpectedly and then Dave was called out to an emergency.
