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as in exotic
excitingly or mysteriously unusual
she dreamed of meeting a tall, romantic stranger who would introduce her to a life of adventure
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as in impractical
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
a workshop intended to disabuse would-be innkeepers of the romantic notion that running a bed-and-breakfast is easy
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as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
she's a hopeless romantic who believes that her one true love is somewhere waiting to be found
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Recent Examples of romantic
Linda Codega, Them, 14 Feb. 2025
The way a child connects with their parents informs the nature of their future relationships— platonic, romantic, and even their relationship with themselves.
—Samantha Mann, Parents, 14 Feb. 2025
Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2024
Tapping into her inner romantic, Blake Lively plays Adaline in this 2015 film about a young woman who suffers a freak accident that leaves her at 29 years old for the rest of her life.
—Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
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Adjective
Star Crossed, by Alex Roberts, a romantic (with the potential to get horny) roleplaying game for two people, was published in 2019 and became an instant hit, winning the prestigious Diana Jones Award for gaming excellence later that year.
—Linda Codega, Them, 14 Feb. 2025
The way a child connects with their parents informs the nature of their future relationships— platonic, romantic, and even their relationship with themselves.
—Samantha Mann, Parents, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
Wandering through the winding streets and mildewing apartments of the medieval Tuscan city, Leonardo becomes the quintessential teenage romantic, both bursting with youthful promise and corroding from adolescent alienation.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2024
Tapping into her inner romantic, Blake Lively plays Adaline in this 2015 film about a young woman who suffers a freak accident that leaves her at 29 years old for the rest of her life.
—Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for romantic
Adjective
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The museum has partnered with Little Ray’s, one of the largest exotic animal rescue organizations in North America, to bring this exhibit to Chicago.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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Its cocktails span the exotic and the oddball, including the Vienna Strudel, with mascarpone cheese, apple caviar and cinnamon raisins, and the Tokyo Drift, a blend of Japanese shochu, mezcal and vermouth crowned with lychee-wasabi air bubbles.—
Rod Stafford Hagwood,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Feb. 2025
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Yet these technologies mostly proved impractical for broader application.—
Raphael S. Cohen,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Feb. 2025
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Many Spanish businesses anticipate a slowdown in August and plan accordingly, whereas in the U.S., businesses remain open year-round, making extended closures impractical.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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The film’s ghostly images are at once flattened and alive, hovering in visual purgatory as scenes begin to feel not only like fever dreams, but out-of-body observations of the dreamers themselves.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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Soon the dreamers’ voices, their heady dreamscapes and potent emotions, were accompanying my days.—
Mireille Juchau,
The Dial,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The win-then-disqualification made for a strange post-race set of circumstances.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Feb. 2025
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Our strange behavior and fumbled sentences change others’ perception of us and our perception of ourselves.—
Wash Westmoreland,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Feb. 2025
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Finn’s friends refuse to take him seriously, but Annie is more idealistic, responding to something in the man’s personality.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2025
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Located just 15 minutes from Portland, the pet-friendly resort offers vacationers an idealistic Maine escape with the convenience of exploring both the city and coast.—
Eliseé Browchuk,
Vogue,
3 Feb. 2025
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That’s a socialist utopian fantasy as shown by Canada, where wait times to get procedures averaged 30 weeks in 2024.—
John Seiler,
Orange County Register,
7 Feb. 2025
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Normally, Davos is a hotbed of planners and self-congratulatory humanitarians who dream up utopian schemes that then can be imposed from the top down by governments.—
John Fund,
National Review,
4 Feb. 2025
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At the height of their popularity in the 1630s, a bona fide tulip mania swept through the country, and single bulbs of the most colorful species were worth more than their weight in gold.—
Chris Schalkx,
AFAR Media,
14 Feb. 2025
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The set includes 85 colorful pieces that are easy for toddler hands to pick up and place, including a car, number bricks, and characters.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
People.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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Tarantino has a quixotic belief about what film can accomplish.—
Paul Fitzgerald,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
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On the Github page for the quixotic project, coder ading2210 discusses how Adobe Acrobat included some robust support for JavaScript in the PDF file format.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Romantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romantic. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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