romantic
noun/rəʊˈmæntɪk/
/rəʊˈmæntɪk/
- a person who is emotional and has a lot of imagination, and who has ideas and hopes that may not be realistic
- a hopeless romantic
- He was a romantic at heart and longed for adventure.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- real
- true
- …
- be a romantic at heart
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- Romantica writer, a musician or an artist who writes, etc. in the style of Romanticism
Word Originmid 17th cent. (referring to the characteristics of romance in a narrative): from archaic romaunt ‘tale of chivalry’, from an Old French variant of romanz, based on Latin Romanicus ‘Roman’. (see romance).
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