0 past simple and past participle of romanticize
1 to talk about something in a way that makes it sound better than it really is, or to believe that something is better than it really is:
Stop romanticizing! Nothing's that perfect.
Instead of mysterious caves, dragons, and romanticized heroes, fantastic factory floors, gigantic machines, and larger than life machinists confront the audience.
Their image, for the most part, is not heroic, glamourized or romanticized.
They are also romanticized in folktales as fierce, lawless, and sometimes heroic.
They promoted an invented national "culture" including the romanticized gaucho, an icon once reviled but now esteemed.
Dickens attempts to set up a being devoid of the romanticized national culture.
They are romanticized in folk songs, but they make poor real estate investments.
Only as his body falls lifeless is his music exalted to a comparably romanticized spiritual dimension.
Downtown, that once golden democratic space romanticized by journalists, novelists and often-as-not scholars, is always in decline, always leaving behind a sense of communal loss.
