romantic

Definition

  • noun: a person who thinks a lot about love and does and says things that show strong feelings of love for someone
  • noun: a romantic person, trait, or component
  • adjective: of, relating to, or involving love between two people
  • adjective: consisting of or resembling a 'romance'
  • synonyms: wild, extravagant, sentimental

Examples

  • Her latest movie is a 'romantic' comedy. [=a comedy about two people who fall in love with each other]

  • They were 'romantically' involved. [=they had a romantic/sexual relationship with each other]

  • She had a lot of big 'romantic' dreams of becoming an actress.

Movie quotes

  • (..) is called "golden-age thinking." - Touché. - Yeah, the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in. It's a flaw in the Romantic imagination of those people who... who find it difficult to cope with the depressive. - Yes. - This is the nicest ring we saw. (..)
    2011 Midnight in Paris
  • (..) and nuclear weapons, drug cartels! Usual menu of clichéd horror stories. You know, nostalgia is denial. - Denial of the painful present. - Oh, whoa! Gil is a complete romantic. I mean, he would be more than happy living in a complete state of perpetual denial. - Really? (..)
    2011 Midnight in Paris