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Webster 1913 Edition
Romantic
1.
Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal;
as, a
romantic
tale; a romantic
notion; a romantic
undertaking.Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed
romantic
, than such a persuasion? South.
Zeal for the good of one’s country a party of men have represented as chimerical and
romantic
. Addison.
2.
Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance;
as, a
romantic
person; a romantic
mind.3.
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 poets4.
Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; – applied to scenery;
as, a
. romantic
landscape
Syn. – Sentimental; fanciful; fantastic; fictitious; extravagant; wild; chimerical. See
Sentimental
. The romantic drama
. See under
Drama
.Webster 1828 Edition
Romantic
ROMAN'TIC
,Adj.
1.
Pertaining to romance, or resembling it; wild; fanciful; extravagant; as a romantic taste; romantic notions; romantic expectations; romantic zeal.2.
Improbably or chimerical; fictitious; as a romantic tale.3.
Fanciful; wild; full of wild or fantastic scenery; as a romantic prospect or landscape; a romantic situation.