Definition of Romantic

Romantic

Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.

Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.

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.

Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.

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Romantic Quotations

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
Warren Buffett

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
Johnny Depp

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
Harvey Fierstein

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
James Joyce

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
Orlando Bloom

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
Orlando Bloom

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
Morgan Freeman

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
Morgan Freeman

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.
Morgan Freeman

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
Stevie Nicks

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
Sylvester Stallone

Basically, I'm a romantic.
Pia Zadora

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.
Pia Zadora

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
Gene Tierney

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
Loni Anderson

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
Glenn Beck

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
Jennifer Lopez

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
Paul Simon

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
Joe DiMaggio

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Norman Jewison

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Norman Jewison

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
Norman Jewison

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Tom Wolfe

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Marya Mannes

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
Chevy Chase

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.
Julia Roberts

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Romantic Translations

romantic in Dutch is romantisch
romantic in French is romantique
romantic in German is romantisch, romantischen
romantic in Italian is romantico
romantic in Swedish is romantisk

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