Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - romantic

(romantics) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Someone who is romantic or does romantic things says and does things that make their wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend feel special and loved. When we’re together, all he talks about is business. I wish he were more romantic... ADJ 2. Romantic means connected with sexual love. He was not interested in a romantic relationship with Ingrid. ADJ: ADJ n • romantically We are not romantically involved. ADV 3. A romantic play, film, or story describes or represents a love affair. It is a lovely romantic comedy, well worth seeing. ...romantic novels. ADJ: ADJ n 4. If you say that someone has a romantic view or idea of something, you are critical of them because their view of it is unrealistic and they think that thing is better or more exciting than it really is. He has a romantic view of rural society... ADJ: usu ADJ n c darkgreen]disapproval • A romantic is a person who has romantic views. You’re a hopeless romantic. ? realist N-COUNT 5. Something that is romantic is beautiful in a way that strongly affects your feelings. Seacliff House is one of the most romantic ruins in Scotland. ADJ • romantically ...the romantically named, but very muddy, Cave of the Wild Horses. ADV 6. Romantic means connected with the artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which was concerned with the expression of the individual’s feelings and emotions. ...the poems and prose of the English romantic poets. ADJ: ADJ n