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ro·man·tic

 (rō-măn′tĭk)
adj.
1. Having, showing, expressive of, or conducive to feelings of love or romance: met a romantic stranger; a café with a romantic atmosphere.
2.
a. Imaginative but impractical; visionary: romantic notions of turning downtown into a giant garden.
b. Not based on fact; idealized or fictitious: His memoirs were criticized as a romantic view of the past.
3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of artistic romance: the romantic exploits of the young hero.
4. often Romantic Of or characteristic of romanticism in the arts.
n.
1. A romantic person.
2. often Romantic A follower or adherent of romanticism.

[French romantique, from obsolete romant, romance, from Old French romans, romant-, romance; see romance.]

ro·man′ti·cal·ly adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.romantically - in a romantic manner; "she fantasized romantically about eloping with her boyfriend"
unromantically - without romance; in an unromantic manner; "we got married, rather unromantically, in a dingy office in the town hall"
2.romantically - in a romantic manner; "they were romantically linked"
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Translations
عاطِفِيّا
romanticky
romantikusan
á rómantískan hátt
romanticky
romantik bir biçimde

romantically

[rəʊˈmæntɪkəlɪ] ADVrománticamente, de modo romántico
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

romantically

[rəʊˈmæntɪkəli] adv
romantiquement
to be romantically involved [couple] → avoir une liaison
romantically named
the romantically named, but very muddy, Cave of the Wild Horses → la très romantique par son nom mais très boueuse grotte des chevaux sauvagesromantic involvement nliaison f amoureuse
They were very good friends but there was no romantic involvement → Ils étaient très bons amis mais il n'y avait entre eux aucune liaison amoureuse.
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

romantically

advromantisch; to be romantically involved with somebodyeine Liebesbeziehung mit jdm haben; she was romantically linked with …ihr wurde eine Beziehung mit … nachgesagt; to be romantically inclinedromantisch veranlagt sein; romantically, things are looking upin Liebesdingen geht es aufwärts
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romantically

[rəʊˈmæntɪklɪ] advromanticamente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

romance

(rəˈmans) noun
1. the relationship, actions etc of people who are in love. It was a beautiful romance, but it didn't last.
2. a story about such a relationship etc, especially one in which the people, events etc are more exciting etc than in normal life. She writes romances.
3. this kind of excitement. She felt her life was lacking in romance.
roˈmantic (-tik) adjective
1. (negative unromantic) (of a story) about people who are in love. a romantic novel.
2. causing or feeling love, especially the beautiful love described in a romance. Her husband is very romantic – he brings her flowers every day; romantic music.
3. too concerned with love and excitement. Her head is full of romantic notions.
roˈmantically adverb
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References in classic literature ?
Is she some little danseuse with the whim to be romantically rustic for a week?
But I leave it to any one--the swell of my fifteen-years-old manhood at learning that French Frank, the adventurer of fifty, the sailor of all the seas of all the world, was jealous of me-- and jealous over a girl most romantically named the Queen of the Oyster Pirates.
It seems she was romantically given, for she sat down upon her box, which stood immediately under the window, and fell into a dream of musing.
Windows broke out in unexpected places, little balconies overhung the garden most romantically, and there was a long upper hall full of curiosities from all parts of the world; for the Campbells had been sea-captains for generations.
Many young men of the Oligarchy, impelled by sense of right conduct, or their imaginations captured by the glory of the Revolution, ethically or romantically devoted their lives to it.
"How happy you must be," sighed Sara Ray romantically. "It's just like that story in the Family Guide, where the missing earl comes home to his family just as the Countess and Lady Violetta are going to be turned out by the cruel heir."
Jasper's nephew, by the circumstance of his romantically supposing himself to be enamoured of the same young lady.
We often feel, with Lowell, that 'he is the pure sense of the beautiful incarnated.' The poem is a romantically luxuriant wilderness of dreamily or languorously delightful visions, often rich with all the harmonies of form and motion and color and sound.
"Will my dear Miss Crawley not cast an eye of compassion upon the heroic soldier, whose name is inscribed in the annals of his country's glory?" said Miss Briggs, who was greatly excited by the Waterloo proceedings, and loved speaking romantically when there was an occasion.
No matter what it was, I, the moon-struck slave of Dora, perambulated round and round the house and garden for two hours, looking through crevices in the palings, getting my chin by dint of violent exertion above the rusty nails on the top, blowing kisses at the lights in the windows, and romantically calling on the night, at intervals, to shield my Dora - I don't exactly know what from, I suppose from fire.
He described how the Prince on landing from the gondola emptied his purse into the hands of a picturesque old beggar, while the lady, a little way off, stood gazing back at Venice with the dog romantically stretched at her feet.
But a disease had broken out in the East, there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically, in Lisbon.