Definition of: romantic

(rō·man′tik) adjective
1. Characterized or influenced by romance or the extravagantly ideal; imaginative; marvelous; fanciful: a romantic tale.
2. Given to feelings or thoughts of romance; dreamy: a romantic girl.
3. Characterized by or conducive to love or amorousness.
4. Visionary; fantastic; impractical: a romantic scheme.
5. Strangely wild or picturesque: romantic scenery.
6. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a style of art and literature tending toward free expression of subjective feeling, impressive picturesqueness, imagination, sensuousness, etc.: opposed to classic or classical.
7. Of or pertaining to romanticism in art and literature in the 19th century.
—noun
1. An adherent of romanticism; a romanticist.
2. A romantic person.
3. A romantic trait, idea, etc. [<F romantique <romant, roman romance, novel]
—ro·man′·ti·cal·ly adverb Synonyms (adj.): airy, chimerical, dreamy, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, ideal, imaginative, picturesque, poetic, sentimental, visionary, wild. Antonyms: exact, historical, literal, precise, truthful, unadorned, unimaginative, unvarnished.