Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Romance.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Romanticism.

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Examples

  • The movie wants P&P to be more passionate and romantic than it is, in the conventional Romantic windswept way, so it forces it into that mold, with ridiculous, unsatisfying results.

    "Pride and Prejudice": The Brooklyn Arden Review Cheryl 2005

  • Of course we should have imagined that after years of claiming that, say, Jane Eyre was a mere romantic (instead of Romantic) novel this should be the next 'logical' step.

    BrontëBlog 2009

  • But then I am here on a sort of romantic quest: I have come to find the most romantic places in this city and to follow in the footsteps of Keats, Shelley and Byron, three giants of Romantic poetry who all lived, and in the case of Keats, died in this city.

    Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • His conservatively structured works, in the German romantic musical tradition placed him in the camp of Romantic classicism exemplified by Johannes Brahms.

    unknown title 2008

  • It’s romantic and Romantic, it’s uplifting, it’s touching…

    The Perfect Personality Profile, Titanic Style. | MovieChopShop 2009

  • Explaining: the term Romantic (whatever it means) suggests that “Romances” are a product of the parts of Europe (France, Italy, Spain) whose languages consist in a more than usually heavy dose of the Latin from which they were derived.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Hels 2009

  • Explaining: the term Romantic (whatever it means) suggests that “Romances” are a product of the parts of Europe (France, Italy, Spain) whose languages consist in a more than usually heavy dose of the Latin from which they were derived.

    Let's Do the Time Warp Again: Gothic Ideology Hels 2009

  • The term Romantic refers to its capacity to play with the kind of color and broad tonal expression identified with the organ works of such Romantic and late-Romantic composers as Mendelssohn, Liszt, Franck and Marcel Dupré.

    A Cathedral of Commerce's Crowning Glory 2008

  • I was just reading the spread they put out for your book in Romantic Times Mag and loved it.

    Guest Author: Erin Quinn - Haunting Beauty Nalini Singh 2009

  • Congratulations Nalini, I just read you up in Romantic Times magazine

    Book Tour: Deep Kiss of Winter - Gena Showalter & Kresley Cole Nalini Singh 2009

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