romantic

romantic is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.
2. adjective. Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.
3. adjective. 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.
4. adjective. Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.
5. noun. a soulful or amorous idealist
6. noun. an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism

   Synonyms: romanticist

7. adjective. expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance

   "her amatory affairs"

   "amorous glances"

   Synonyms: amatory, amorous

8. adjective. not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic

   "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"

   "a romantic disregard for money"

   Synonyms: quixotic

9. adjective. belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts

   "romantic poetry"

   Synonyms: romanticist, romanticistic

Synonyms

romanticist, amatory, amorous, quixotic, romanticistic

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in romantic:

macrotin

Common word forms

romantics, romantical, romanticly, romanticise, romanticity, romanticize, romanticness

Words from these letters

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