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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
Tomris Laffly, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Robinson was involved in a romantic relationship with his roommate, who investigators say was transgender, which hasn’t been confirmed.
—Jesse Bedayn, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
Raquel Reichard, Refinery29, 6 Aug. 2025
With so many Queen Anne and Regency buildings, this whole area screams period drama: channel your inner romantic with a visit to a historic home like Keats House (where poet John Keats lived) or Fenton House, with its picturesque walled garden.
—Emma John, AFAR Media, 24 June 2025
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Adjective
And as the two abruptly start discussing who would hurt the other one first in case of a romantic involvement, no signs of on-screen chemistry emerge between them.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Robinson was involved in a romantic relationship with his roommate, who investigators say was transgender, which hasn’t been confirmed.
—Jesse Bedayn, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
For instance, Paros is recommended for groups that want to party, Maldives is for the romantics, and Bali is for those who crave relaxation.
—Raquel Reichard, Refinery29, 6 Aug. 2025
With so many Queen Anne and Regency buildings, this whole area screams period drama: channel your inner romantic with a visit to a historic home like Keats House (where poet John Keats lived) or Fenton House, with its picturesque walled garden.
—Emma John, AFAR Media, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for romantic
Adjective
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Flavors range from fruity — plain tart is the company’s best seller — to extensive variations on vanilla and chocolate, to more exotic flavors.—
Greg Mellen,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
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Flavors range from classic dill and bread and butter to the more exotic like maple bourbon, gin, and sweet ginger pickles.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The resulting collection fuses the nostalgic, theatrical, and the slightly impractical into a versatile edit of staples that can be worn in and out of the home.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
21 Sep. 2025
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Music lovers, dressed in perfectly impractical desert wear, will return to Coachella next April, where the gathering will offer something for just about everyone.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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From vengeful resurrections to satanic rituals, shoplifters waging war on capitalism to secret cults, shadow selves to harrowing births, these genre-defying films crown the Dolls as auteurs, protagonists, dreamers, and disruptors.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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My friend, the late Dr. Dorothy I. Height, once described me as a dreamer with a shovel in my hands.—
John Hope Bryant,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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At the heart of the discovery lies one of quantum mechanics’ strangest features — uncertainty.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Sep. 2025
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The combination of climbing around this strange building and having heard the almost legendary stories about Karl-Göran was evocative and haunting.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Harold remembers arriving at Shepherd as an idealistic young man, ready to shape developing minds and make grand intellectual contributions.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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Lellouche stars as unlikely hero Zem, a disillusioned Zone 3 cop with an idealistic militant past, who is teamed with haughty, high-flying Zone 2 officer Salia, played by Adèle Exarchopoulos, after a leading politician is assassinated in Zone 1.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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What was clear is that Uniqlo conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values, replete with mantras and koans, as much as a clothing company.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Lee and her brother William would preach far and wide to attract people to their cause (a necessity, given the lifetime celibacy requirement) and their pursuit of a utopian society free of any and all sin.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This energy is released as light, producing the colorful displays seen in the night sky.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Grand Slam winners get a colorful Grand Slam Award sticker.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The resulting film is equal parts shaggy, quixotic road movie and Malickian spiritual ponderance, gazing at the celestial patterns above while also too drunk on them to see the shallowness of their promise.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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There’s a quixotic gallantry to appealing to a saner conservative and looking ahead to a post-Trump American politics.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Romantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romantic. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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