Word forms: romanticizes, romanticizing, romanticizedregional note: in BRIT, also use romanticise
verb
If you romanticize someone or something, you think or talk about them in a way which is not at all realistic and which makes them seem better than they really are.
He romanticized the past as he became disillusioned with his present. [VERB noun]
romanticizedadjective
The film takes a highly romanticized view of life on the streets.