romantic

romantic
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noun
ADJECTIVE
great (esp. BrE), real, true
old (esp. BrE)
hopeless, incurable
PHRASES
be a romantic at heart
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adj.
VERBS
be, feel, look, seem, sound
become, get

You're getting very romantic in your old age!

ADVERB
extremely, fairly, very, etc.
highly

highly romantic notions of marriage

incredibly, terribly, wildly, wonderfully
Romantic is used with these nouns: ↑ballet, ↑adventure, ↑affair, ↑atmosphere, ↑attachment, ↑backdrop, ↑bliss, ↑comedy, ↑couple, ↑dinner, ↑disappointment, ↑drama, ↑dream, ↑encounter, ↑era, ↑evening, ↑fantasy, ↑feeling, ↑fiction, ↑gesture, ↑hero, ↑heroine, ↑idea, ↑ideal, ↑illusion, ↑imagination, ↑interlude, ↑lead, ↑liaison, ↑love, ↑meeting, ↑mood, ↑movement, ↑movie, ↑myth, ↑notion, ↑novel, ↑novelist, ↑overture, ↑painter, ↑partner, ↑passion, ↑poet, ↑poetry, ↑relationship, ↑rendezvous, ↑restaurant, ↑rival, ↑scene, ↑setting, ↑soul, ↑stroll, ↑tale, ↑temperament, ↑touch, ↑view, ↑vision, ↑walk, ↑yearning

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  • romantic — ro|man|tic1 [rəuˈmæntık, rə US rou, rə ] adj ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(showing love)¦ 2¦(relating to love)¦ 3¦(story/film)¦ 4¦(beautiful)¦ 5¦(not practical)¦ 6 Romantic art/literature etc ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1600 1700; : French; Origin: romantique, from Old French… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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