Definition of romantic
- a. - Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling
romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a
romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.
- a. - Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance;
as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.
- a. - 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.
- a. - Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of
adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery;
as, a romantic landscape.