Nouns (2)
romantic
n. a soulful or amorous idealist
romanticist
n. an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (6)
amatory
adj. expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride"
wild-eyed, quixotic, unrealistic
adj. not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state"
romanticist, romanticistic
adj. belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts; "romantic poetry"
Fuzzynyms (43)
illusionist, visionary, seer
n. a person with unusual powers of foresight
optimist
n. a person disposed to take a favorable view of things
passionate
adj. having or expressing strong emotions
hot, ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, heated, torrid, impassioned, perfervid
adj. characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"
bathetic, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy
adj. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
fantastic, fantastical, chimerical
adj. produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush
fanciful
adj. not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"
impulsive, capricious, whimsical
adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"
volatile, fickle
adj. marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"
made-up, fictitious, fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictive, invented
adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
illusive, illusory
adj. based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"
notional, imaginary, imagined
adj. not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"
Synonyms (27)
admiring
adj. showing or feeling admiration; "an admiring crowd"; "gave me one of her rare admiring looks"
adoring, doting, fond, lovesome
adj. extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother"
tender, caring, warm, fond, affectionate
adj. having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "caring parents"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace"
affectioned
adj. archaic
amative, amorous
adj. inclined toward or displaying love; "feeling amorous"
captivated, charmed
adj. strongly attracted
caressing, caressive
adj. showing love; "caressive words"
fatherly
adj. showing the affection of a father
idolatrous
adj. blindly or excessively devoted or adoring
loverlike, loverly
adj. like or in the manner of a lover
overfond
adj. excessively fond
tenderhearted
adj. easily moved to love
uxorious
adj. foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife
armchair, vicarious
adj. (impractical)
unfunctional
adj. not related to or suitable for everyday needs or activities
Antonyms (3)
classicist
n. an artistic person who adheres to classicism
practical
adj. concerned with actual use or practice; "he is a very practical person"; "the idea had no practical application"; "a practical knowledge of Japanese"; "woodworking is a practical art"
realistic
adj. aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are; "a realistic description"; "a realistic view of the possibilities"; "a realistic appraisal of our chances"; "the actors tried to create a realistic portrayal of the Africans"
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