(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Someone who is ~ or does ~ things says and does things that make their wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend feel special and loved.
When we’re together, all he talks about is business. I wish he were more ~...
ADJ
2.
Romantic means connected with sexual love.
He was not interested in a ~ relationship with Ingrid.
ADJ: ADJ n
~ally
We are not ~ally involved.
ADV
3.
A ~ play, film, or story describes or represents a love affair.
It is a lovely ~ comedy, well worth seeing.
...~ novels.
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
If you say that someone has a ~ view or idea of something, you are critical of them because their view of it is unrealistic and they think that thing is better or more exciting than it really is.
He has a ~ view of rural society...
ADJ: usu ADJ n disapproval
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A ~ is a person who has ~ views.
You’re a hopeless ~.
? realist
N-COUNT
5.
Something that is ~ is beautiful in a way that strongly affects your feelings.
Seacliff House is one of the most ~ ruins in Scotland.
ADJ
~ally
...the ~ally named, but very muddy, Cave of the Wild Horses.
ADV
6.
Romantic means connected with the artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which was concerned with the expression of the individual’s feelings and emotions.
...the poems and prose of the English ~ poets.
ADJ: ADJ n