romanticadj.n.

Brit.

/rə(ʊ)ˈmantɪk/, U.S.

/roʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/

Forms: 1600s romanticke, 1600s romantique, 1600s–1700s romantick, 1600s– romantic.

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or perhaps (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: English romant , romaunt n., -ic suffix; Latin romanticus.

Etymology: Either < romant, variant of romaunt n. + -ic suffix, or perhaps < post-classical Latin romanticus (of a poem) having the nature or qualities of a romance (1648 in an Italian source, or earlier; 15th cent. as romanticum (neuter noun) in sense ‘poem written in French having the nature or qualities of a romance’; apparently < Middle French romant + -icus -ic suffix). Perhaps compare earlier French romanesque Romanesque adj. The semantic development of the word parallels that of romance n. Compare French romantique (1675 as adjective, 1801 as noun), which apparently shows a borrowing < English, and compare also Spanish romántico (1824 as adjective, 1854 or earlier as noun), Portuguese romántico (1858 as adjective; also as noun), Italian romantico (1814 as adjective, 1816 (in sense ‘Romanticist’) as noun), Dutch romantisch (early 19th cent.), German romantisch (1695, earliest in a trilingual dictionary published in Geneva (glossing French romantique )), all apparently showing borrowing < either the English or the French word. With the use as noun in sense B. 3a compare German Romantiker (1802).

A. adj.

a. Of a narrative, work of fiction, etc.: having the nature or qualities of a romance (romance n. 1, 3a) as regards form or content. Of an author: that writes romances; tending to write in the manner of a romance.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [adjective]

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1650 T. Bayly (title) Herba parietis... Being a history which is partly true, partly romantick, morally divine.

1658 tr. S. de Cyrano de Bergerac Satyrical Characters xxi. 80 The Romanticke Authors [Fr. Autheurs Romanesques] that you are acquainted withall, do oftentimes give Empires to those that perhaps before enjoyed not two Acres of Ground.

1703 J. Browne Mod. Pract. Physick Vindicated 1 The Rhapsodical Harangues of this Dispensarian, who oftentimes assumes the Air and Stile of a Romantick Writer, rather than that of a Serious Physician.

1740 J. Oldmixon Nixon's Cheshire Prophecy (ed. 10) 8 This Account, as Whimsical and Romantic as it is, was told to the Lady Cowper..by Dr. Patrick.

1777 J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. I. Dissert. p. xxix Romantic Fiction has long been considered as of Eastern origin.

1829 W. Scott Waverley Novels (new ed.) I. Gen. Pref. p. xvi It was a step in my advance towards romantic composition.

1846 T. Wright Ess. Middle Ages II. 38 Nothing can be more erroneous than the attempt to trace the origin of romantic literature to one particular source.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. ii. 9 The romantic narrative of which Geoffrey of Monmouth is the chief spokesman.

1921 L. Pound Poet. Origins & Ballad ii. 42 The name ‘ballad’ was not applied specifically to heroic or romantic narrative songs until the eighteenth century.

1934 Tablet 14 July 45/1 A fine romantic tale of Cornwall in the days when the strange people of that strange outland were in the throes of ranting Methodism.

1992 C. Edelman Brawl Ridiculous ix. 151 Challenges between one who has slandered a lady and the lady's disguised defender are ubiquitous in romantic literature.

b. Of language, style, etc.: suitable for a romance; esp. overblown, euphuistic, flowery. Now rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective]

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > euphuistic or precious

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1653 J. Davies in tr. C. Sorel Extravagant Shepherd To Rdr. sig. b2 Let alone that cold water, sayes he, here's warm comes out of my eyes. This indeed was a little Romantick.

a1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master (1669) ii. 14 Lucill. Sir, let me imbrace your knees, and not rise from mine till I obtain that succour which I hope you will afford me. Ferd. This stile is somewhat Romantick.

1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence 24 All that is said for this, is, that it is a Romantick Stile proper to the Monks.

1710 N. Taubman Mem. Brit. Fleets & Squadrons in Mediteranean 181 All appearing like Gentlemen are saluted Illustrissimos and Excellentissimos..Natives of ordinary Circumstances address each other in the same Romantick Stile.

1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. x. 424 [He] commends the Bishops.., and he advances them, in romantick language, to the Rank of Heroes.

1794 T. Maurice Indian Antiq. II. vi. 269 However mysterious the allegory, and however wild and romantic the language in which it is clothed, this fact may be depended upon.

1823 T. Ross tr. F. Bouterwek Hist. Spanish & Portuguese Lit. I. ii. i. 251 A considerable series of Horace's odes in the same romantic syllabic measure which he chose for his own odes.

1867 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Oct. 649 We..received an answer which, being translated into the romantic style of Mr. Mitchell's novel, would run somewhat as follows.

1917 C. Thomas Goethe 75 The wish to try his hand on the stricter form of the romantic eight-line stanza.

†a. That is told of in romances; fabled. Also: characteristic of or befitting a romance; of a kind that may be found in romances. Obsolete.

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1653 J. Davies in tr. C. Sorel Extravagant Shepherd Transl. to Rdr. sig. d As for Lysis's carrying away of his Mistress, 'tis an ordinary Romantic humour.

1653 J. Davies in tr. C. Sorel Extravagant Shepherd Transl. to Rdr. sig. d ^v That marrying all of a day Clarimond needed not so much to have laugh'd at: for your Romantick Shepherds being all Beggars, such a thing might happen.

a1658 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) 8 He..Acts the Romantick Phœnix fate.

1700 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother ii. i How great a good by me sincerely offer'd Thy dull Romantick Honour has refus'd.

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres i. xv. 179 In foolish Fables and imaginary Records, we have an account of Battles fought by Lancellotto da Lago, and other romantic Heroes.

b. Of a statement, story, character, etc.: fictitious, invented; having no foundation in fact. Formerly also: †(of a thing) having no real existence, imaginary (obsolete). Now rare.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [adjective]

fabulous1555

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1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xvi. 399 The light of Navigation hath long since discovered this story to be as highly Romantique, as the Enchanted Castles of our Knights Errant.

1660 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania Pref. sig. C2^v How are they taken with pleasure and sorrow for the good and bad success of the Romantick Lovers?

1668 P. M. Myst. & Miracles Love iv. 55 in W. Charleton Ephesian & Cimmerian Matrons Lucian's Panthea..likewise, it is probable, was no other than an Imaginary or Romantique Lady, made up of all the rare idea's of Beauty..whereof humane nature is capable.

1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iv. 171 We must not imagine that the prophets..feigned an idea of a romantick state, that never was nor ever will be.

1707 G. Hickes Two Treat. Pref. p. cxxxix He must give them Priests without Human Infirmities, if I may say it, Romantick Priests.

1728 J. Morgan Hist. Barbary Epitomiz'd in Compl. Hist. Algiers I. 62 Nicephorus relates that..S. Peter preached the Gospel in Mauritania: But this is looked upon to be intirely romantick.

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 672 The notion of an early-printed edition of the Canterbury Tales, by Wynkyn de Worde, is purely romantic.

1862 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Hist. Rome I. ii. vii. 395 The entirely romantic details of the account, which represents the Romans..as delivering to Alexander a chaplet of gold.

1905 Everybody's Mag. Mar. 423/1 Reading the captain's story, subsequently shown to be romantic, Mr. J. D. Hague was stirred to [etc.].

a. Of an idea, plan, etc.: fantastic, extravagant, quixotic; going beyond what is customary or practical. Of a person, personality, etc.: given to or characterized by such ideas; responsive to the promptings of imagination or fancy regardless of practicality.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > [adjective] > to extravagant extent

utopical1574

utopian1588

romantic1659

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supermundane1851

1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. xx. 569 They come to that Romantick and Errant spirit, which thinks it as much gallantry to fight for their Religion, as some do for their Mistresses beauties.

1661 J. Evelyn in tr. G. Naudé Instr. conc. Erecting of Libr. sig. A4^v That stupendious Idea..which, however lofty, and to appearance Romantic, has yet in it nothing of Impossible to be effected.

1671 Sir W. Thompson in C. J. Fèret Fulham (1900) I. 50 The romantic and visionary scheme of building a bridge over the river at Putney.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 39. ⁋42 There must be a Spice of Romantick Gallantry in the composition of that very Pretty Fellow.

1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 170 What is here represented, will be treated by some of our Planters, as Romantick.

1746 Rep. Conduct Sir J. Cope 50 Few crediting so ‘romantick’ an Enterprize.

1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 67 It is his intention equally to share his future inheritance with his brother. A most romantic idea.

1852 H. W. Herbert Cavaliers of Eng. i. ii. 185 I would I could see you more practically-minded; less given to these singular romantic dreamings.

1910 E. W. Champney Romance Imperial Rome iv. 250 This romantic scheme is impossible. Florus would kill you before you could embark.

1950 R. J. Dubos Louis Pasteur ii. 53 He had hoped that the mysteries of life and death would be revealed to him at the end of his journey. But, failing this romantic goal, there were still worth-while lands to discover and to conquer.

2004 M. W. Apple Ideology & Curriculum (ed. 3) x. 180 To assume that class relations have somehow gone away..is utterly romantic.

b. That gives free rein to the imagination; indulging in fancy or fantasy; fanciful; sentimental; idealistic.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > [adjective]

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Romanesque1763

1755 F. Brooke in Old Maid 15 Nov. 3 No one who is not as romantic as I then was, can imagine the joy I felt at being able to give my lover such a proof of the disinterestedness of my passion.

1778 F. Burney Evelina III. i. 8 I am not romantic,—I have not the least design of doing good to either of you.

1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 37 The Wood of Boulogne is the favourite resort of the Parisian when he wishes to be romantic.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 199 To unhappy allies..he extended his protection with a romantic disinterestedness.

1862 Times 12 Apr. 9/4 Nor is the learned Society actuated by a purely romantic generosity.

1866 Times 11 Aug. 8/5 To do your neighbour solid, plain, simple good..is so very humdrum... How can persons be romantic about ‘Nuisances’? What gift of the imagination is elicited by ‘Sewers’?

1929 Enemy No. 3. 16 [They] presented themselves to their readers as good romantic american ‘radicals’, confronted with a deep-eyed conservative ‘Britisher’.

1998 D. Shefet-Vanson tr. S. Sofer Zionism & Found. Israeli Diplomacy iii. xi. 242 Begin's point of departure was pure romantic altruism, according to which rebels sacrifice themselves for the sake of the nation.

2007 New Yorker 8 Jan. 40/2 But when you try to be romantic about pro football its reality comes back: the snapping sound of Theismann's fibula, the nearly parodic corporatism that infects the game.

4. Characterized or marked by, or invested with, a sense of romance (romance n. 5a); arising from, suggestive of, or appealing to, an idealized, fantastic, or sentimental view of life or reality; atmospheric, evocative, glamorous.

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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > quality appealing to emotion or imagination > [adjective] > having emotional or romantic appeal

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1666 S. Pepys Diary 26 Feb. (1972) VII. 59 It [sc. Windsor Castle] is the most romantique castle that is in the world.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 103 There is also on the side of this horrid Alp, a very romantic seate.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 142. ⁋2 A Man of Honour, not a Romantick Hero or a Whining Coxcomb.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. v. 337 An Island, which..may in all these views be justly stiled romantic.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. i. 6 The girl was..called Sophia; so that we had two romantic names in the family.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. xix. 43 Yet, e'en in that romantic age, Ne'er were such charms by mortal seen.

1854 J. Ruskin Lect. Archit. ii. 65 You feel that armour is romantic, because it is a beautiful dress, and you are not used to it.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) 328 The grandest and most romantic character that Israel ever produced, Elijah the Tishbite.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §6. 407 The romantic daring of Drake's voyage..roused a general enthusiasm throughout England.

1917 R. Peixotto Romantic Calif. 268 This great bluff that skirts the sea is the most romantic spot upon the coast, and certainly it does make a striking impression.

1938 Sun (Baltimore) 19 July 8/3 His flight was harebrained and foolhardy... It was an unnecessary throwback to the romantic era of long-distance aviation.

1944 Daily Express 6 July 2/7 Why the Supremo?.. A handsome, romantic figure. Hence the Latin-sounding nickname.

1953 John o' London's Weekly 3 July 588/3 Conversion from a wild ruin to a preserved ancient monument has wrought the fundamental change of something romantic into something academic.

1996 Maclean's 18 Mar. 40/2 An untimely death can be a romantic fate to those who are suitably primed psychologically.

2007 A. Enright Gathering (2008) iii. 13 History is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots.

a. Of love or friendship: of an idealized kind (originally spec. such as might be felt or demonstrated by the heroes of romance), esp. in being chivalrous, devoted, or selfless. Of a person: displaying such love or friendship. Later more generally: of or relating to (esp. idealized or sentimental) love. Cf. romance n. 5b.In later use esp. with reference to the emotional element of a relationship, in contrast to its physical or sexual aspects.

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the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [adjective] > romantic or ideal

romantic1732

1732 J. Whaley Poems 93 Let giddy Youth the treach'rous Sallies prove, Of Feav'rish Transports, and Romantic Love.

1754 R. Berenger in World 4 July 474 I know several unmarried ladies, who in all probability had been..good wives and..mothers, if their imaginations had not been early perverted with the chimerical ideas of romantic love,..upon which principle, a footman may as well be the hero as his master.

1778 S. Tighe Let. 2 Apr. in G. H. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) 27 There were no gentlemen concerned, nor does it appear to be anything more than a scheme of Romantic Friendship.

1806 Ld. Byron Fugitive Pieces 23 And friendships were form'd, too romantic to last.

1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (Tauchnitz ed.) III. vii. xiv. 347 (heading) Romantic Love pathologically regarded by Frank Vance and Alban Morley.

1866 C. M. Yonge Dove in Eagle's Nest II. ii. 41 Good substantial wedded affection was not lacking, but romantic love was thought an unnecessary preliminary, and found a vent in extravagant adoration not always in reputable quarters.

1921 W. J. Locke Mountebank viii. 96 The woman who could satisfy all his romantic imaginings was the Princesse Lointaine.

1942 T. Bailey Pink Camellia vii. 50 The lovemaking was of the purely romantic kind, for Cecily would have no other.

1971 E. Mavor Ladies of Llangollen v. 96 The strange ambivalence of the pre-Freudian romantic friendships.

1978 Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 17/2 Partnerships flourish. A romantic attachment is possible, but do not take it too seriously.

2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 17 Feb. ii. 12/2 Three guys..hire a female life coach to improve their romantic lives.

b. Of an occasion, activity, gesture, etc.: involving or characteristic of romance (romance n. 5b); conducive to feelings of romance.

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1845 Blackwood's Mag. July 113/2 The happy husband..would often serenade his lady-love (albeit his wedded love also) on some golden evening, as she sat..under the fine sycamore tree—the ‘trysting-place’ of their romantic assignations.

1857 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 1 Aug. 3/3 Not a very romantic walk to invite the lady of my heart to share, but then the circumstances are peculiar.

1917 S. Lewis Job v. 71 Not till an enormous platter..was slammed down between them,..did Walter seem to remember that this was a romantic dinner with a strange girl, not a deal in food-supplies.

1948 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 28 Aug. 4/1 The average young married couple have mighty little to spend on romantic gestures.

1982 Jet Mag. 22 Feb. 4/1 I've learned that those kinds of niceties, such as breakfast in bed, romantic dinners, receiving flowers, etc., all make the marriage institution a longer lasting and more loving union.

2006 Brides Sept.–Oct. 100/2 A pre-nuptial agreement isn't the most romantic subject to raise when you're about to commit, heart and soul.

c. Of a person. Chiefly predicative.

(a) Demonstrating feelings of love and tenderness; given to (impulsive) acts of romanticism and affection; amorous, loving, affectionate.

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the mind > emotion > love > [adjective]

lovesomeOE

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1866 E. Yates Land at Last i. xiii. 45 A week a go I said to you, ‘Margaret, be my wife.’ It was not very romantically put, I confess; but I'm not a very romantic person.

1937 Chicago Tribune 11 Feb. 3/4 ‘He's so romantic,’ she smiled, ‘and so impractical. He wrote me sonnets instead of looking for a job.’

1956 Los Angeles Times 29 July iii. 31/6 The Englishman will take you to a theater, and occasionally a night club, but he's not romantic. He hesitates to ask for a good-night kiss.

1971 T. Morduch tr. W. Chorell in tr. C. E. Soya et al. Five Mod. Scand. Plays 147 I expect he's going to bring me some flowers. He is so very romantic.

1994 M. S. Weinberg et al. Dual Attraction (1995) i. viii. 83 Jane is very romantic and likes to be very romantic with the mood, lights, and everything perfect.

2009 G. Morris Sonnet to Dead Contessa xv. 198 You may not believe it, but your father was a very romantic man. He even learnt how to play a guitar and sing love songs to me.

(b) Desirous of or wanting love and romance. Later also: in the mood for sexual intercourse; sexually aroused; ‘turned on’. Chiefly in to feel (also get) romantic.

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1885 Belgravia June 433 [She was] pleased also to have a young man dancing attendance upon her... To-night..she felt romantic. She had been thinking..that it was a duty she owed to society to marry.

1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Like Stars that Fell xvii. 241 He looked at her like a great faithful spaniel, and the caress of his thick hand suggested the coaxing pats of a dog's paw. It was impossible to feel romantic.

1904 M. Deland Common Way 66 Yes, the girls are first rate, dont you know; they're corking jolly to go off with; but..they aint the kind that's makin' a fellow feel romantic.

1935 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 5/2 No use saying ‘stop!’ You are so fresh and sweet after your bath, a fellow can't help feeling romantic!

1977 L. J. Schwartz & W. Burton Nearlyweds ii. 51 (stage direct.) They get romantic and kiss.

1991 ‘N. Roberts’ Carnal Innoc. 82 If the two of you have to get romantic, you'll do it down in the family room.

2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 Mar. (Weekend section) 4 Romance, for instance. You could think about what makes each of you feel romantic.

d. Of a story, novel, film, etc.: having love or a love affair as its subject. Of a character, actor, etc.: featuring or starring in such a story, film, etc.; specializing or suited for such roles. Cf. romance n. 7.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [adjective] > types of novel

picaresque1822

Gothic1825

Minerva press1843

yellow1843

western1846

bluggy1876

cape and sword (also cape and cloak)1898

Mills & Boon1912

straight1936

blockbusting1943

Mills and Boony1946

private eye1946

police procedural1957

thrillerish1957

porno-Gothic1968

romantic1977

neo-noir1986

bonkbusting1993

1907 J. Briscoe Actors' Birthday Bk. 41 Robert T. Haines..most acceptably fills the requirements of the present-day romantic lead.

1926 E. Wallace Square Emerald xv We'll occupy the afternoon with a ‘flick’. I love the movies—especially the romantic ones.

1960 R. Rees For Love or Money ii. 30 The doctrine of D. H. Lawrence's Fantasia of the Unconscious: that sexual passion, unrelated to the religious impulse..leads to sterility and death—as in Anna Karenina, in Carmen, and in the greater part of European ‘romantic’ literature.

1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn i. 3 Unable to find what she needed in ‘romantic’ novels, Letty had turned to biographies of which there was no dearth.

1991 Film Comment Mar.–Apr. 17/2 Such great romantic stars as Irene Dunne and Margaret Sullavan.

2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 Jan. 32/7 Jonathan Demme remade the Stanley Donen romantic thriller Charade as a valentine to French movies.

6. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of dramatic production (now chiefly ballet) which makes use of legendary, exotic, or imaginary settings, typically to explore the conflict between man and nature or the supernatural. Now chiefly historical.Originally perhaps simply a contextual use of sense A. 1a; early examples may suggest no more than that the production in question is considered to share some of the attractive features (setting, excitement, etc.) of contemporary romances. With reference to ballet a narrower definition has been widely used, as applicable to works and styles prevalent during the second quarter of the 19th cent., in which the emphasis was predominantly on mood or atmosphere, and ballet technique was expanded, especially for female dancers.In later use often indistinguishable from sense A. 7.

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society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [adjective] > type of ballet

romantic1798

classical1909

1798 Times 9 Mar. 1/4 (advt.) This Day is published, The New, Grand, Romantic Romance of Blue Beard, as now performing..at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane.

1801 Times 3 June 1/1 (advt.) Part of the present popular Performances must be unavoidably withdrawn..on account of an entire new Musical, Romantic, Magical Grand Ballet of Action, which has been a long time in preparation.

1804 Times 9 Apr. 6/1 After the Play will be presented a grand Serio-Comic Romantic Melo-Drama, called Valentine and Orson.

1807 Monthly Mirror June 403 I submitted to him a romantic opera, which I thought of offering to Covent-Garden.

1830 R. Barton tr. C. Blasis Code of Terpsichore (ed. 2) v. 419 (heading) Zara. A romantic ballet, in five acts.

1841 Times 12 Oct. 4/1 This evening will be presented a romantic burletta of witchcraft, in two acts, and a prologue, entitled Die Hexen am Rhein.

1911 Indianapolis Star 15 Jan. 29/4 The principal feature of the..program..is ‘Giselle’, a romantic fairy ballet in two acts.

1927 Theatre Arts 11 580 The romantic ballet and the spiritual impulse back of it found no adequate literary expression.

1957 G. B. L. Wilson Dict. Ballet 230 Romantic ballet, used, somewhat narrowly, to describe the ballets produced during the period of the Romantic revival in literature in the early nineteenth century, or roughly from 1830–1850, taking as their theme the odyssey of mortal man in love with some female spirit of the air or water or with some maiden risen from her tomb... The dividing line is a slender one, i.e. in the romantic ballet the accent is on colour or mood rather than form and design which is predominant in the classical ballet.

1959 F. Gadan et al. Dict. Mod. Ballet 329/1 Several other great Romantic dancers appeared as La Sylphide.

2009 Metro (Nexis) 8 May 39 Mikhail Fokine distilled the essence of Romantic ballet into an ethereal, plotless, gliding halfhour of floaty tulle skirts and pas de bourrées.

7. Frequently as Romantic. Designating, relating to, or characteristic of a movement or style during the late 18th and 19th centuries in Europe marked by an emphasis on feeling, individuality, and passion rather than classical form and order, and typically preferring grandeur, picturesqueness, or naturalness to finish and proportion. Generally opposed to classical (see classical adj. 7). See also neo-romantic adj., New Romantic adj., pre-Romantic adj., etc.

a. With reference to literature, art, etc.Originally applied to poetry (cf. sense A. 1a), following the use in an equivalent sense of German romantisch by Friedrich Schlegel (see quot. 1798) and others. Romantic is occasionally found contrasted with classical in earlier sources, but without the specific connotations of this sense. For a fuller discussion see H. Eichner ‘Romantic’ & its Cognates (1972).

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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > specific movement or period

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pastoral1566

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Medicean1652

romantic1812

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realistic1829

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pseudo-classical1838

renaissant1839

modernist1848

post-classic1850

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geometric1877

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William Morris1883

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veristic1884

William and Mary1886

Yuan1888

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veritistic1894

auto-destructive1895

pre-Romantic1895

Trajanic1906

neo-realistic1909

New Romantic1909

neo-realist1912

futuristic1915

postmodern1916

Dada1918

Dadaist1918

surrealist1918

proto-Romantic1920

expressionistic1921

modernista1924

super-realist1925

superrealistic1925

postmodernist1926

proto-Baroque1926

post-symbolist1927

pre-modernist1927

surrealistic1930

Renaissancist1932

Colonial Revival1934

neo-baroque1935

socialist-realist1935

social realist1949

social realistic1949

kitchen sink1954

William IV1955

formalistic1957

Zhdanovite1957

neo-Dadaist1960

neo-modernist1960

William Morrisy1960

neo-Dada1962

Zhdanovist1966

conceptual1969

conceptualist1973

po-mo1987

pathetic1990

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > literary movement, school, or theory

classic1743

classical1784

Alexandrian1803

romantic1812

realistic1829

realista1832

romanticist1831

symbolistic1864

symbolistical1864

neo-romantic1875

naturalistic1876

Alexandrine1877

neoclassical1877

veristic1884

impressionistic1886

impressionary1889

romanticistic1889

sensitivist1891

veritistic1894

Félibrian1908

symbolic1910

vorticist1914

Dada1918

Dadaist1918

surrealist1918

postmodernist1926

surrealistic1930

ultraist1931

socialist-realist1935

lettrist1947

social realist1949

social realistic1949

formalist1955

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > 17th century-mid 19th century > [adjective] > romanticism

romantic1812

1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. ii. sig. k4 Had classical taste and judgment been now established, imagination would have suffered, and too early a check would have been given to the beautiful extravagancies of romantic fabling.

1798 F. Schlegel in Athenaeum (Berlin) 1 ii. 28 Die romantische Poesie ist eine progressive Universalpoesie.]

1812 H. C. Robinson Jrnl. 19 May in E. J. Morley H. C. Robinson on Bks. (1938) I. 84 We proceeded to Coleridge's first lecture... He spoke of religion, the spirit of chivalry,..and a classification of poetry into ancient and romantic.

1813 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 206 The poetry of the Spanish peninsula seems to have been more romantic and less subject to classical bondage than that of any other part of Europe.

1820 Ld. Byron Ded. to Goethe 14 Oct. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1830) II. 358 I perceive that in Germany, as well as in Italy, there is a great struggle about what they call ‘Classical’ and ‘Romantic’.

1830 L. von Mühlenfels Introd. Course German Lit. 80 As the characteristics of modern or romantic art, I pointed out its tendency towards the infinite, its longing for the unearthly, [etc.].

1848 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy Past & Present II. 65 That new school of literature to which the vague denomination of Romantic had been generally applied.

1937 D. Bush Mythol. & Romantic Trad. in Eng. Poetry p. xiii The effect of both the romantic and the industrial movements was to make the artist, if not an anti-social figure, at any rate an isolated one.

1951 F. Kermode Romantic Image vii. 132 The next step forward in Romantic aesthetic depended upon a new theory of language.

1989 Lit. Rev. Aug. 41/2 In theory, avant gardism is romantic individualism taken to its extreme conclusion.

2008 New Yorker 6 Oct. 87/1 He borrowed the term ‘self-development’ from the German Romantic philosopher Wilhelm von Humboldt.

b. With reference to music.Used esp. with reference to music composed in the second half of the 19th cent.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > style of composition

grandc1666

romantic1836

routinier1837

parodistic1845

rococo1868

virtuose1873

virtuosic1879

galant1884

polymorphous1890

monothematic1894

rococo1904

impressionistic1908

salon1914

gallant1925

athematic1935

non-thematic1946

minimalistic1947

stochastic1958

progressive1963

minimal1968

post-minimal1971

minimalist1977

1836 Musical Libr. Jan. Suppl. 30/1 When Carl Maria von Weber opened to himself a new path, by that work of genius, Der Freischutz, what is called romantic music was by several stamped as belonging to a peculiar school.

1838 Musical World 19 Jan. 38 The fourth [epoch of instrumental music], which has been styled the romantic, grew up from the forms of orchestral music.

1885 J. C. Fillmore Pianof. Music 80 In romantic music content is first and form subordinate.

1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 810/1 By the ‘Romantic School’ in music is meant the group of active spirits in that movement which began in Germany with Weber (born 1786)... Or it can be carried back as far as Schubert (born 1797) and Beethoven (born 1770).

1991 Music & Lett. 72 114 Hoffmann's observations on orchestration..anticipate a primary concern of Romantic music: ‘colour’ as a component of composition.

2007 Gramophone Feb. 13/3 Unlike the broad brushstrokes of Romantic opera, Baroque gives us stories with complex emotions and a lot going on.

B. n.

†1. A writer of romances. Obsolete. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [noun] > writer or composer of romance

romancer?a1400

romancealist1652

romancist1653

romantic1664

1664 W. Gordoun in J. Fullarton Turtle-dove sig. c^v Vain Utopian stories, which Romanticks fain, Who busk Chymerick notions, which are not Else where, but in the fanciers brain begot.

2. A romantic feature, characteristic, etc.; (chiefly in plural) romantic behaviour or manner. Now rare.

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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > quality appealing to emotion or imagination > [noun] > feature or characteristic having

romantic1678

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [noun] > romantic feature

romantic1678

1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. vi. 269 Some Legendary Fabler, that has stufft a Farce with Romanticks.

1805 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (2002) II. 2515 Of country—Great Britain for me—none of your romantics!

1835 Ld. Abinger Let. 20 Aug. in P. C. Scarlett Mem. (1877) 163 I can..give you a place back to town in my great coach, by the romantics of Buxton, Bakewell, and Matlock.

1887 W. Black Sabina Zembra 221 There you are with your romantics again.

1908 Sewanee Rev. Jan. 117 The stirring novels and romances of Scott..have delighted the hearts of so many school-boys and girls. ‘I just love his romantics,’ exclaimed one of the latter.

1952 A. Koestler Arrow in Blue 184 I was twenty-three and had had my fill of the East—both of Arab romantics and Jewish mystique.

3. Frequently as Romantic.

a. An adherent or practitioner of Romanticism in literature, art, etc.; a Romanticist. Cf. New Romantic n.

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society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > artist of specific movement or period

mannerist1695

romanticist1821

trecentist1821

classicist1827

romantic1827

expressionist1850

classicalist1851

Gothicist1861

literalist1862

realist1868

modernist1879

verist1884

classic1885

symbolist1888

decadent1890

veritist1894

neoclassicist1899

neo-romantic1899

renaissancer1899

social realist1909

avant-garde1910

futurist1911

pasticheur1912

Bloomsbury1917

postmodern1917

pre-Romantic1918

Dadaist1919

German expressionist1920

super-realist1925

surrealist1925

New Romantic1930

brutalist1934

socialist-realist1935

avant-gardist1940

New Negro1953

neo-modernist1958

bricoleur1965

popster1965

sound artist1966

performance artist1975

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary movements or theories > adherent of

modernist1703

symbolist1812

romanticist1821

classicist1827

romantic1827

symbolizer1854

archaist1867

realist1868

verist1884

naturalist1888

naturist1892

Teutonist1894

veritist1894

literary theorist1896

neoclassicist1899

social realist1909

futurist1911

postmodernist1914

vorticist1914

postmodern1917

Scythian1923

surrealist1925

populist1930

ultraist1931

socialist-realist1935

lettrist1946

New Negro1953

formalist1955

pre-modernist1962

Scyth1972

dirty realist1987

po-mo1996

1827 T. Carlyle in C. E. Norton Two Notebks. of T. Carlyle (1898) 111 Grossi..has written a new Epic... Grossi is a Romantic.

1865 Reader 3 June 619/1 This enthusiasm for enthusiasm..was natural to the whole race of romantics of that day.

1882 R. L. Stevenson in Longman's Mag. Nov. 77 Walter Scott is out and away the king of the romantics.

1927 R. H. Wilenski Mod. Movement in Art 30 Nineteenth-century romantics deliberately left out all the features which the admirers of classical painting were accustomed to regard as indispensable to art.

1960 A. O. Lovejoy in M. H. Abrams Eng. Romantic Poets 15 To be unsophisticated, to revert to the mental state of ‘simple Indian swains’, was the least of the ambitions of a German Romantic... The greatness of Shakespeare, in the eyes of these Romantics, lay in his Universalität.

1966 H. G. Schenk Mind of European Romantics i. 6 Rationalism was attacked by the Romantics not on the grounds that the intellectual results yielded by it were false, but rather on the grounds that they were inadequate.

2001 P. Ball Bright Earth xiv. 373 The idea of the sublime, so treasured by the nineteenth-century Romantics.

b. A composer of Romantic music.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer by type of music

fuguist1789

symphonist1789

melodist1826

threnodist1827

instrumentalist1838

melophonist1847

polyphonist1864

musical dramatist1866

operettist1867

tone poet1874

orchestrator1875

French Impressionist1876

monodist1888

romantic1892

neoclassicist1899

orchestralist1899

variationist1900

mensuralist1901

tone-painter1903

impressionist1908

pre-Romantic1918

phrase-maker1924

polytonalist1925

atonalist1929

dodecaphonist1953

serialist1954

twelve-toner1955

miniaturist1962

minimalist1969

tonalist1982

1892 Musical Times Sept. 523/1 The Romantics..are Weber, Meyerbeer, Spohr, Marschner, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, and Chopin.

1916 Musical Q. 2 94 We have lived through an epoch, which, beginning with the classical composers, led us to the Romantics, and which, with Schönberg as the last of the Romantics, is drawing to its close.

1961 C. Clutton in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages ii. 66 The [organ] works of Liszt and Franck,..and of such late romantics as Reger, Jongen, and Elgar, rely upon a very large instrument.

1992 Music Anal. 11 352 (note) The more ‘conservative’ Romantics such as Schumann, Brahms, and, above all, Verdi.

4. A romantic, sentimental, or idealistic person.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > [noun] > person having

romancera1623

romantist1827

romantic1829

romanticist1831

1829 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 437/1 Thither now repair..unthrifty young men who have nearly broken their parents' hearts, misanthropes, alarmists, romantics, [etc.].

1886 Trans. New Shakspere Soc. 1880–6 544 Fenton and Anne Page..are in love, romantics, and not such jovial characters as the others.

1914 L. J. Vance Lone Wolf xvii. 204 The countenance of the stout Frenchman was lightened with a gleam of eager interest—inveterate romantic that he was!

1952 E. Anderson Plants, Man & Life iii. 45 Once he is in the field, the average taxonomist is an incurable romantic. Watch him take a group of students on a field trip.

1991 Observer 22 Sept. 2/4 High-profile Green Jonathan Porritt..bluntly told grassroots romantics to ‘grow up’.

2003 E. Noble Reading Group 248 Her imagination was always ready to flesh out the facts with a story cobbled together from a thousand made-for-television movies, bonkbuster novels and a romantic's heart.

Compounds

C1.

a. Complementary, as romantic-looking, romantic-seeming, etc., adjs.

ΚΠ

1789 E. Rigby Let. 2 July in Dr. Rigby's Lett. (1880) 4 I don't think they [sc. the cliffs] are higher or more romantic looking than those at Mundsley.

1829 Foreign Q. Rev. Aug. 399 Having reviewed this extraordinary and romantic-seeming army, the Duke of Guise never questioned but that he would be next day complete master of Naples.

1847 H. Melville Omoo lxxviii. 301 He was a sun-burnt, romantic-looking European.

1931 E. O'Neill Mourning becomes Electra i. i. 29 He's such a darned romantic-looking cuss. Looks more like a gambler or a poet than a ship captain.

1974 Backpacker Spring 333 Those romantic-sounding small backpacking specialty manufacturers such as Sierra Designs, Kelty, Gerry, Jan Sport, [etc.].

1995 Newsday (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Nassau & Suffolk ed.) a103 Pewter stands, decorated with French-braided ribbons for romantic-looking table centerpieces.

b. Parasynthetic, as romantic-scened, romantic-themed adjs.

ΚΠ

1828 Sporting Mag. 21 224 The hunting events of the romantic-scened county.

1994 Billboard (Nexis) 23 July 56 Future ‘Cinema Jazz’ releases will include a romantic-themed album.

C2.

romantic comedy n. (originally) a comedy having qualities associated with a literary romance (cf. sense A. 1a); (subsequently also) a film or other work with a light, comedic tone and a plot centring on a romantic relationship (often viewed in a sentimental or idealized way); this style or genre; cf. romcom n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > other types of comedy

Old Comedy1529

New Comedy1542

comedy of errors?1595

romantic comedy1748

musical comedy1765

comédie larmoyante1773

sketch1789

serio-comedy1808

vaudeville1827

teacup-and-saucer comedy1842

satyr play1845

Restoration comedy1866

zarzuela1888

situation comedy1893

sex comedy1915

sitcom1956

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types

romantic comedy1748

epic1785

pre-release1871

foreign film1899

frivol1903

dramedy1905

film loop1906

first run1910

detective film1911

colour film1912

news film1912

topical1912

cinemicrograph1913

scenic1913

sport1913

newsreel1914

serial1914

sex comedy1915

war picture1915

telefilm1919

comic1920

true crime1923

art house1925

quickie1926

turkey1927

two-reeler1928

smellie1929

disaster film1930

musical1930

feelie1931

sticky1934

action comedy1936

quota quickie1936

re-release1936

screwball comedy1937

telemovie1937

pickup1939

video film1939

actioner1940

space opera1941

telepic1944

biopic1947

kinescope1949

TV movie1949

pièce noire1951

pièce rose1951

deepie1953

misterioso1953

film noir1956

policier1956

psychodrama1956

free film1958

prequel1958

co-production1959

glossy1960

sexploiter1960

sci-fier1961

tie-in1962

chanchada1963

romcom1963

wuxia1963

chick flick1964

showreel1964

mockumentary1965

sword-and-sandal1965

schlockbuster1966

mondo1967

peplum1968

thriller1968

whydunit1968

schlocker1969

buddy-buddy movie1972

buddy-buddy film1974

buddy film1974

science-fictioner1974

screwball1974

buddy movie1975

slasher movie1975

swashbuckler1975

filmi1976

triptych1976

autobiopic1977

Britcom1977

kidflick1977

noir1977

bodice-ripper1979

chopsocky1981

date movie1983

kaiju eiga1984

screener1986

neo-noir1987

indie1990

bromance2001

hack-and-slash2002

mumblecore2005

dark fantasy2007

hack-and-slay2007

gorefest2012

kidult-

1748 T. Nugent tr. J.-B. Dubos Crit. Refl. Poetry & Painting II. xxx. 299/2 They were accustomed for a long time to a coarse or Romantic comedy, which entertained them with low, or improbable adventures.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. v. l. 125 They looked like a couple dropped out of a romantic comedy.

1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 123 The poetic drama must have an emotional unity... The romantic comedy is a skilful concoction of inconsistent emotion.

1937 N.Y. Times 17 Apr. 15 (heading) It's a romantic comedy at the Roxy: By title ‘Love is Young’.

1991 Film Comment Mar.–Apr. 49/3 The conventions of romantic comedy have..grown yet more appealing with the passage of time.

2008 N.Y. Mag. 21 Apr. 116/1 Jason Segal delivers as the..lead of this raunchy romantic comedy..about a dumpee who flees to Hawaii, only to find his ex..staying at the same resort.

Romantic irony n. (also with lower-case initial in the first element) Literary Criticism an attitude of detached scepticism adopted by an author towards his or her work, typically manifesting in literary self-consciousness and self-reflection. [After German romantische Ironie (early 19th cent. or earlier). This conception of irony originated with the German Romantic writer and critic Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829).]

ΚΠ

1853 Brit. Q. Rev. Nov. 374 Respecting this romantic irony, as it is called, some assertions have been made which would appear only to proceed from misapprehension.

1908 P. E. More Shelburne Ess. 5th Ser. 119 Like Friedrich Schlegel, he indulges in the romantic irony of smiling down upon himself and walking through life like a Doppelgänger.

2010 Slavic Rev. 69 193 Among Kahn's collateral aims is to overturn conceptions of Pushkin as a poet of wild nature, strange attractions, fragmentary open structures, or undecidable Romantic irony.

Romantic Revival n. the resurgence of interest in the literature of earlier periods during the late 18th and early 19th centuries which gave rise to the Romantic movement.

ΚΠ

1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. v. 81 Hearne..executed the whole of the afore-mentioned drawings for the ‘Antiquities of Great Britain’, the first dawn of the modern Gothic and Romantic revival.

1866 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 515 That great intellectual movement in Europe, which may be termed the romantic revival or reaction,..began just a hundred years ago with the publication of Percy's Reliques.

1930 W. Empson Seven Types Ambiguity i. 27 Before the Romantic Revival the possibilities of not growing up had never been exploited so far as to become a subject for popular anxiety.

2004 M. Lauster in S. Bann Reception W. Pater in Europe viii. 185 The essay reads like the retrospective of a lonely survivor from the era of the Romantic revival.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	romantic
释义	romanticadj.n. Brit. /rə(ʊ)ˈmantɪk/, U.S. /roʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/ Forms: 1600s romanticke, 1600s romantique, 1600s–1700s romantick, 1600s– romantic. Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or perhaps (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: English romant , romaunt n., -ic suffix; Latin romanticus. Etymology: Either < romant, variant of romaunt n. + -ic suffix, or perhaps < post-classical Latin romanticus (of a poem) having the nature or qualities of a romance (1648 in an Italian source, or earlier; 15th cent. as romanticum (neuter noun) in sense ‘poem written in French having the nature or qualities of a romance’; apparently < Middle French romant + -icus -ic suffix). Perhaps compare earlier French romanesque Romanesque adj. The semantic development of the word parallels that of romance n. Compare French romantique (1675 as adjective, 1801 as noun), which apparently shows a borrowing < English, and compare also Spanish romántico (1824 as adjective, 1854 or earlier as noun), Portuguese romántico (1858 as adjective; also as noun), Italian romantico (1814 as adjective, 1816 (in sense ‘Romanticist’) as noun), Dutch romantisch (early 19th cent.), German romantisch (1695, earliest in a trilingual dictionary published in Geneva (glossing French romantique )), all apparently showing borrowing < either the English or the French word. With the use as noun in sense B. 3a compare German Romantiker (1802). A. adj. 1. a. Of a narrative, work of fiction, etc.: having the nature or qualities of a romance (romance n. 1, 3a) as regards form or content. Of an author: that writes romances; tending to write in the manner of a romance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [adjective] romance1631 romantic1650 romancical1655 romanceful1821 1650 T. Bayly (title) Herba parietis... Being a history which is partly true, partly romantick, morally divine. 1658 tr. S. de Cyrano de Bergerac Satyrical Characters xxi. 80 The Romanticke Authors [Fr. Autheurs Romanesques] that you are acquainted withall, do oftentimes give Empires to those that perhaps before enjoyed not two Acres of Ground. 1703 J. Browne Mod. Pract. Physick Vindicated 1 The Rhapsodical Harangues of this Dispensarian, who oftentimes assumes the Air and Stile of a Romantick Writer, rather than that of a Serious Physician. 1740 J. Oldmixon Nixon's Cheshire Prophecy (ed. 10) 8 This Account, as Whimsical and Romantic as it is, was told to the Lady Cowper..by Dr. Patrick. 1777 J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. I. Dissert. p. xxix Romantic Fiction has long been considered as of Eastern origin. 1829 W. Scott Waverley Novels (new ed.) I. Gen. Pref. p. xvi It was a step in my advance towards romantic composition. 1846 T. Wright Ess. Middle Ages II. 38 Nothing can be more erroneous than the attempt to trace the origin of romantic literature to one particular source. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. ii. 9 The romantic narrative of which Geoffrey of Monmouth is the chief spokesman. 1921 L. Pound Poet. Origins & Ballad ii. 42 The name ‘ballad’ was not applied specifically to heroic or romantic narrative songs until the eighteenth century. 1934 Tablet 14 July 45/1 A fine romantic tale of Cornwall in the days when the strange people of that strange outland were in the throes of ranting Methodism. 1992 C. Edelman Brawl Ridiculous ix. 151 Challenges between one who has slandered a lady and the lady's disguised defender are ubiquitous in romantic literature. b. Of language, style, etc.: suitable for a romance; esp. overblown, euphuistic, flowery. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] overwrittenOE flourished1303 orne?a1425 ornatea1450 purpuratec1475 gallant1484 flourishinga1552 gorgeous1561 coloured1571 flowerya1616 ornated1630 flosculent1646 luscious1651 chromatic1652 romantic1653 gaudy1655 florid1656 blooming1685 bloomy1685 dressy1713 colouring1807 colorific1812 emblazoned1813 embroidered1868 purple1941 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > euphuistic or precious quaintc1395 fine1576 romantic1653 precious1712 précieuse1785 tortuous1801 euphuistical1823 euphuistic1828 précieux1891 1653 J. Davies in tr. C. Sorel Extravagant Shepherd To Rdr. sig. b2 Let alone that cold water, sayes he, here's warm comes out of my eyes. This indeed was a little Romantick. a1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master (1669) ii. 14 Lucill. Sir, let me imbrace your knees, and not rise from mine till I obtain that succour which I hope you will afford me. Ferd. This stile is somewhat Romantick. 1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence 24 All that is said for this, is, that it is a Romantick Stile proper to the Monks. 1710 N. Taubman Mem. Brit. Fleets & Squadrons in Mediteranean 181 All appearing like Gentlemen are saluted Illustrissimos and Excellentissimos..Natives of ordinary Circumstances address each other in the same Romantick Stile. 1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. x. 424 [He] commends the Bishops.., and he advances them, in romantick language, to the Rank of Heroes. 1794 T. Maurice Indian Antiq. II. vi. 269 However mysterious the allegory, and however wild and romantic the language in which it is clothed, this fact may be depended upon. 1823 T. Ross tr. F. Bouterwek Hist. Spanish & Portuguese Lit. I. ii. i. 251 A considerable series of Horace's odes in the same romantic syllabic measure which he chose for his own odes. 1867 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Oct. 649 We..received an answer which, being translated into the romantic style of Mr. Mitchell's novel, would run somewhat as follows. 1917 C. Thomas Goethe 75 The wish to try his hand on the stricter form of the romantic eight-line stanza. 2. †a. That is told of in romances; fabled. Also: characteristic of or befitting a romance; of a kind that may be found in romances. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1653 J. Davies in tr. C. Sorel Extravagant Shepherd Transl. to Rdr. sig. d As for Lysis's carrying away of his Mistress, 'tis an ordinary Romantic humour. 1653 J. Davies in tr. C. Sorel Extravagant Shepherd Transl. to Rdr. sig. d ^v That marrying all of a day Clarimond needed not so much to have laugh'd at: for your Romantick Shepherds being all Beggars, such a thing might happen. a1658 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) 8 He..Acts the Romantick Phœnix fate. 1700 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother ii. i How great a good by me sincerely offer'd Thy dull Romantick Honour has refus'd. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres i. xv. 179 In foolish Fables and imaginary Records, we have an account of Battles fought by Lancellotto da Lago, and other romantic Heroes. b. Of a statement, story, character, etc.: fictitious, invented; having no foundation in fact. Formerly also: †(of a thing) having no real existence, imaginary (obsolete). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [adjective] fabulous1555 legendary1570 poetic1610 mythological1614 romantic1654 mythologic1664 legendous1686 fabular1690 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xvi. 399 The light of Navigation hath long since discovered this story to be as highly Romantique, as the Enchanted Castles of our Knights Errant. 1660 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania Pref. sig. C2^v How are they taken with pleasure and sorrow for the good and bad success of the Romantick Lovers? 1668 P. M. Myst. & Miracles Love iv. 55 in W. Charleton Ephesian & Cimmerian Matrons Lucian's Panthea..likewise, it is probable, was no other than an Imaginary or Romantique Lady, made up of all the rare idea's of Beauty..whereof humane nature is capable. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iv. 171 We must not imagine that the prophets..feigned an idea of a romantick state, that never was nor ever will be. 1707 G. Hickes Two Treat. Pref. p. cxxxix He must give them Priests without Human Infirmities, if I may say it, Romantick Priests. 1728 J. Morgan Hist. Barbary Epitomiz'd in Compl. Hist. Algiers I. 62 Nicephorus relates that..S. Peter preached the Gospel in Mauritania: But this is looked upon to be intirely romantick. 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 672 The notion of an early-printed edition of the Canterbury Tales, by Wynkyn de Worde, is purely romantic. 1862 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Hist. Rome I. ii. vii. 395 The entirely romantic details of the account, which represents the Romans..as delivering to Alexander a chaplet of gold. 1905 Everybody's Mag. Mar. 423/1 Reading the captain's story, subsequently shown to be romantic, Mr. J. D. Hague was stirred to [etc.]. 3. a. Of an idea, plan, etc.: fantastic, extravagant, quixotic; going beyond what is customary or practical. Of a person, personality, etc.: given to or characterized by such ideas; responsive to the promptings of imagination or fancy regardless of practicality. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > [adjective] > to extravagant extent utopical1574 utopian1588 romantic1659 utopic1850 supermundane1851 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. xx. 569 They come to that Romantick and Errant spirit, which thinks it as much gallantry to fight for their Religion, as some do for their Mistresses beauties. 1661 J. Evelyn in tr. G. Naudé Instr. conc. Erecting of Libr. sig. A4^v That stupendious Idea..which, however lofty, and to appearance Romantic, has yet in it nothing of Impossible to be effected. 1671 Sir W. Thompson in C. J. Fèret Fulham (1900) I. 50 The romantic and visionary scheme of building a bridge over the river at Putney. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 39. ⁋42 There must be a Spice of Romantick Gallantry in the composition of that very Pretty Fellow. 1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 170 What is here represented, will be treated by some of our Planters, as Romantick. 1746 Rep. Conduct Sir J. Cope 50 Few crediting so ‘romantick’ an Enterprize. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 67 It is his intention equally to share his future inheritance with his brother. A most romantic idea. 1852 H. W. Herbert Cavaliers of Eng. i. ii. 185 I would I could see you more practically-minded; less given to these singular romantic dreamings. 1910 E. W. Champney Romance Imperial Rome iv. 250 This romantic scheme is impossible. Florus would kill you before you could embark. 1950 R. J. Dubos Louis Pasteur ii. 53 He had hoped that the mysteries of life and death would be revealed to him at the end of his journey. But, failing this romantic goal, there were still worth-while lands to discover and to conquer. 2004 M. W. Apple Ideology & Curriculum (ed. 3) x. 180 To assume that class relations have somehow gone away..is utterly romantic. b. That gives free rein to the imagination; indulging in fancy or fantasy; fanciful; sentimental; idealistic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > [adjective] romancial1653 romantical1662 romanical1665 romantic1755 Romanesque1763 1755 F. Brooke in Old Maid 15 Nov. 3 No one who is not as romantic as I then was, can imagine the joy I felt at being able to give my lover such a proof of the disinterestedness of my passion. 1778 F. Burney Evelina III. i. 8 I am not romantic,—I have not the least design of doing good to either of you. 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 37 The Wood of Boulogne is the favourite resort of the Parisian when he wishes to be romantic. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 199 To unhappy allies..he extended his protection with a romantic disinterestedness. 1862 Times 12 Apr. 9/4 Nor is the learned Society actuated by a purely romantic generosity. 1866 Times 11 Aug. 8/5 To do your neighbour solid, plain, simple good..is so very humdrum... How can persons be romantic about ‘Nuisances’? What gift of the imagination is elicited by ‘Sewers’? 1929 Enemy No. 3. 16 [They] presented themselves to their readers as good romantic american ‘radicals’, confronted with a deep-eyed conservative ‘Britisher’. 1998 D. Shefet-Vanson tr. S. Sofer Zionism & Found. Israeli Diplomacy iii. xi. 242 Begin's point of departure was pure romantic altruism, according to which rebels sacrifice themselves for the sake of the nation. 2007 New Yorker 8 Jan. 40/2 But when you try to be romantic about pro football its reality comes back: the snapping sound of Theismann's fibula, the nearly parodic corporatism that infects the game. 4. Characterized or marked by, or invested with, a sense of romance (romance n. 5a); arising from, suggestive of, or appealing to, an idealized, fantastic, or sentimental view of life or reality; atmospheric, evocative, glamorous. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > quality appealing to emotion or imagination > [adjective] > having emotional or romantic appeal romance1631 romancy1653 romantic1666 1666 S. Pepys Diary 26 Feb. (1972) VII. 59 It [sc. Windsor Castle] is the most romantique castle that is in the world. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 103 There is also on the side of this horrid Alp, a very romantic seate. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 142. ⁋2 A Man of Honour, not a Romantick Hero or a Whining Coxcomb. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. v. 337 An Island, which..may in all these views be justly stiled romantic. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. i. 6 The girl was..called Sophia; so that we had two romantic names in the family. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. xix. 43 Yet, e'en in that romantic age, Ne'er were such charms by mortal seen. 1854 J. Ruskin Lect. Archit. ii. 65 You feel that armour is romantic, because it is a beautiful dress, and you are not used to it. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) 328 The grandest and most romantic character that Israel ever produced, Elijah the Tishbite. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §6. 407 The romantic daring of Drake's voyage..roused a general enthusiasm throughout England. 1917 R. Peixotto Romantic Calif. 268 This great bluff that skirts the sea is the most romantic spot upon the coast, and certainly it does make a striking impression. 1938 Sun (Baltimore) 19 July 8/3 His flight was harebrained and foolhardy... It was an unnecessary throwback to the romantic era of long-distance aviation. 1944 Daily Express 6 July 2/7 Why the Supremo?.. A handsome, romantic figure. Hence the Latin-sounding nickname. 1953 John o' London's Weekly 3 July 588/3 Conversion from a wild ruin to a preserved ancient monument has wrought the fundamental change of something romantic into something academic. 1996 Maclean's 18 Mar. 40/2 An untimely death can be a romantic fate to those who are suitably primed psychologically. 2007 A. Enright Gathering (2008) iii. 13 History is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. 5. a. Of love or friendship: of an idealized kind (originally spec. such as might be felt or demonstrated by the heroes of romance), esp. in being chivalrous, devoted, or selfless. Of a person: displaying such love or friendship. Later more generally: of or relating to (esp. idealized or sentimental) love. Cf. romance n. 5b.In later use esp. with reference to the emotional element of a relationship, in contrast to its physical or sexual aspects. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [adjective] > romantic or ideal romantic1732 1732 J. Whaley Poems 93 Let giddy Youth the treach'rous Sallies prove, Of Feav'rish Transports, and Romantic Love. 1754 R. Berenger in World 4 July 474 I know several unmarried ladies, who in all probability had been..good wives and..mothers, if their imaginations had not been early perverted with the chimerical ideas of romantic love,..upon which principle, a footman may as well be the hero as his master. 1778 S. Tighe Let. 2 Apr. in G. H. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) 27 There were no gentlemen concerned, nor does it appear to be anything more than a scheme of Romantic Friendship. 1806 Ld. Byron Fugitive Pieces 23 And friendships were form'd, too romantic to last. 1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (Tauchnitz ed.) III. vii. xiv. 347 (heading) Romantic Love pathologically regarded by Frank Vance and Alban Morley. 1866 C. M. Yonge Dove in Eagle's Nest II. ii. 41 Good substantial wedded affection was not lacking, but romantic love was thought an unnecessary preliminary, and found a vent in extravagant adoration not always in reputable quarters. 1921 W. J. Locke Mountebank viii. 96 The woman who could satisfy all his romantic imaginings was the Princesse Lointaine. 1942 T. Bailey Pink Camellia vii. 50 The lovemaking was of the purely romantic kind, for Cecily would have no other. 1971 E. Mavor Ladies of Llangollen v. 96 The strange ambivalence of the pre-Freudian romantic friendships. 1978 Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 17/2 Partnerships flourish. A romantic attachment is possible, but do not take it too seriously. 2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 17 Feb. ii. 12/2 Three guys..hire a female life coach to improve their romantic lives. b. Of an occasion, activity, gesture, etc.: involving or characteristic of romance (romance n. 5b); conducive to feelings of romance. ΚΠ 1845 Blackwood's Mag. July 113/2 The happy husband..would often serenade his lady-love (albeit his wedded love also) on some golden evening, as she sat..under the fine sycamore tree—the ‘trysting-place’ of their romantic assignations. 1857 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 1 Aug. 3/3 Not a very romantic walk to invite the lady of my heart to share, but then the circumstances are peculiar. 1917 S. Lewis Job v. 71 Not till an enormous platter..was slammed down between them,..did Walter seem to remember that this was a romantic dinner with a strange girl, not a deal in food-supplies. 1948 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 28 Aug. 4/1 The average young married couple have mighty little to spend on romantic gestures. 1982 Jet Mag. 22 Feb. 4/1 I've learned that those kinds of niceties, such as breakfast in bed, romantic dinners, receiving flowers, etc., all make the marriage institution a longer lasting and more loving union. 2006 Brides Sept.–Oct. 100/2 A pre-nuptial agreement isn't the most romantic subject to raise when you're about to commit, heart and soul. c. Of a person. Chiefly predicative. (a) Demonstrating feelings of love and tenderness; given to (impulsive) acts of romanticism and affection; amorous, loving, affectionate. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] lovesomeOE lovelyOE amorousa1393 lovinga1450 lovingly1493 beloving1549 amorevolousa1670 romantic1866 amorist1882 1866 E. Yates Land at Last i. xiii. 45 A week a go I said to you, ‘Margaret, be my wife.’ It was not very romantically put, I confess; but I'm not a very romantic person. 1937 Chicago Tribune 11 Feb. 3/4 ‘He's so romantic,’ she smiled, ‘and so impractical. He wrote me sonnets instead of looking for a job.’ 1956 Los Angeles Times 29 July iii. 31/6 The Englishman will take you to a theater, and occasionally a night club, but he's not romantic. He hesitates to ask for a good-night kiss. 1971 T. Morduch tr. W. Chorell in tr. C. E. Soya et al. Five Mod. Scand. Plays 147 I expect he's going to bring me some flowers. He is so very romantic. 1994 M. S. Weinberg et al. Dual Attraction (1995) i. viii. 83 Jane is very romantic and likes to be very romantic with the mood, lights, and everything perfect. 2009 G. Morris Sonnet to Dead Contessa xv. 198 You may not believe it, but your father was a very romantic man. He even learnt how to play a guitar and sing love songs to me. (b) Desirous of or wanting love and romance. Later also: in the mood for sexual intercourse; sexually aroused; ‘turned on’. Chiefly in to feel (also get) romantic. ΚΠ 1885 Belgravia June 433 [She was] pleased also to have a young man dancing attendance upon her... To-night..she felt romantic. She had been thinking..that it was a duty she owed to society to marry. 1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Like Stars that Fell xvii. 241 He looked at her like a great faithful spaniel, and the caress of his thick hand suggested the coaxing pats of a dog's paw. It was impossible to feel romantic. 1904 M. Deland Common Way 66 Yes, the girls are first rate, dont you know; they're corking jolly to go off with; but..they aint the kind that's makin' a fellow feel romantic. 1935 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 5/2 No use saying ‘stop!’ You are so fresh and sweet after your bath, a fellow can't help feeling romantic! 1977 L. J. Schwartz & W. Burton Nearlyweds ii. 51 (stage direct.) They get romantic and kiss. 1991 ‘N. Roberts’ Carnal Innoc. 82 If the two of you have to get romantic, you'll do it down in the family room. 2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 Mar. (Weekend section) 4 Romance, for instance. You could think about what makes each of you feel romantic. d. Of a story, novel, film, etc.: having love or a love affair as its subject. Of a character, actor, etc.: featuring or starring in such a story, film, etc.; specializing or suited for such roles. Cf. romance n. 7. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [adjective] > types of novel picaresque1822 Gothic1825 Minerva press1843 yellow1843 western1846 bluggy1876 cape and sword (also cape and cloak)1898 Mills & Boon1912 straight1936 blockbusting1943 Mills and Boony1946 private eye1946 police procedural1957 thrillerish1957 porno-Gothic1968 romantic1977 neo-noir1986 bonkbusting1993 1907 J. Briscoe Actors' Birthday Bk. 41 Robert T. Haines..most acceptably fills the requirements of the present-day romantic lead. 1926 E. Wallace Square Emerald xv We'll occupy the afternoon with a ‘flick’. I love the movies—especially the romantic ones. 1960 R. Rees For Love or Money ii. 30 The doctrine of D. H. Lawrence's Fantasia of the Unconscious: that sexual passion, unrelated to the religious impulse..leads to sterility and death—as in Anna Karenina, in Carmen, and in the greater part of European ‘romantic’ literature. 1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn i. 3 Unable to find what she needed in ‘romantic’ novels, Letty had turned to biographies of which there was no dearth. 1991 Film Comment Mar.–Apr. 17/2 Such great romantic stars as Irene Dunne and Margaret Sullavan. 2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 Jan. 32/7 Jonathan Demme remade the Stanley Donen romantic thriller Charade as a valentine to French movies. 6. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of dramatic production (now chiefly ballet) which makes use of legendary, exotic, or imaginary settings, typically to explore the conflict between man and nature or the supernatural. Now chiefly historical.Originally perhaps simply a contextual use of sense A. 1a; early examples may suggest no more than that the production in question is considered to share some of the attractive features (setting, excitement, etc.) of contemporary romances. With reference to ballet a narrower definition has been widely used, as applicable to works and styles prevalent during the second quarter of the 19th cent., in which the emphasis was predominantly on mood or atmosphere, and ballet technique was expanded, especially for female dancers.In later use often indistinguishable from sense A. 7. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [adjective] > type of ballet romantic1798 classical1909 1798 Times 9 Mar. 1/4 (advt.) This Day is published, The New, Grand, Romantic Romance of Blue Beard, as now performing..at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. 1801 Times 3 June 1/1 (advt.) Part of the present popular Performances must be unavoidably withdrawn..on account of an entire new Musical, Romantic, Magical Grand Ballet of Action, which has been a long time in preparation. 1804 Times 9 Apr. 6/1 After the Play will be presented a grand Serio-Comic Romantic Melo-Drama, called Valentine and Orson. 1807 Monthly Mirror June 403 I submitted to him a romantic opera, which I thought of offering to Covent-Garden. 1830 R. Barton tr. C. Blasis Code of Terpsichore (ed. 2) v. 419 (heading) Zara. A romantic ballet, in five acts. 1841 Times 12 Oct. 4/1 This evening will be presented a romantic burletta of witchcraft, in two acts, and a prologue, entitled Die Hexen am Rhein. 1911 Indianapolis Star 15 Jan. 29/4 The principal feature of the..program..is ‘Giselle’, a romantic fairy ballet in two acts. 1927 Theatre Arts 11 580 The romantic ballet and the spiritual impulse back of it found no adequate literary expression. 1957 G. B. L. Wilson Dict. Ballet 230 Romantic ballet, used, somewhat narrowly, to describe the ballets produced during the period of the Romantic revival in literature in the early nineteenth century, or roughly from 1830–1850, taking as their theme the odyssey of mortal man in love with some female spirit of the air or water or with some maiden risen from her tomb... The dividing line is a slender one, i.e. in the romantic ballet the accent is on colour or mood rather than form and design which is predominant in the classical ballet. 1959 F. Gadan et al. Dict. Mod. Ballet 329/1 Several other great Romantic dancers appeared as La Sylphide. 2009 Metro (Nexis) 8 May 39 Mikhail Fokine distilled the essence of Romantic ballet into an ethereal, plotless, gliding halfhour of floaty tulle skirts and pas de bourrées. 7. Frequently as Romantic. Designating, relating to, or characteristic of a movement or style during the late 18th and 19th centuries in Europe marked by an emphasis on feeling, individuality, and passion rather than classical form and order, and typically preferring grandeur, picturesqueness, or naturalness to finish and proportion. Generally opposed to classical (see classical adj. 7). See also neo-romantic adj., New Romantic adj., pre-Romantic adj., etc. a. With reference to literature, art, etc.Originally applied to poetry (cf. sense A. 1a), following the use in an equivalent sense of German romantisch by Friedrich Schlegel (see quot. 1798) and others. Romantic is occasionally found contrasted with classical in earlier sources, but without the specific connotations of this sense. For a fuller discussion see H. Eichner ‘Romantic’ & its Cognates (1972). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > specific movement or period classical1546 pastoral1566 classic1597 Medicean1652 romantic1812 tedesco1814 realistic1829 realista1832 pseudo-classic1833 classicist1838 pseudo-classical1838 renaissant1839 modernist1848 post-classic1850 post-classical1851 pseudo-Gothic1853 classicizing1865 classicistic1866 serio-grotesque1873 geometric1877 neoclassical1877 modernistic1878 neoclassic1878 pseudo-archaic1878 William Morris1883 protocorinthian1884 veristic1884 William and Mary1886 Yuan1888 romanticistic1889 veritistic1894 auto-destructive1895 pre-Romantic1895 Trajanic1906 neo-realistic1909 New Romantic1909 neo-realist1912 futuristic1915 postmodern1916 Dada1918 Dadaist1918 surrealist1918 proto-Romantic1920 expressionistic1921 modernista1924 super-realist1925 superrealistic1925 postmodernist1926 proto-Baroque1926 post-symbolist1927 pre-modernist1927 surrealistic1930 Renaissancist1932 Colonial Revival1934 neo-baroque1935 socialist-realist1935 social realist1949 social realistic1949 kitchen sink1954 William IV1955 formalistic1957 Zhdanovite1957 neo-Dadaist1960 neo-modernist1960 William Morrisy1960 neo-Dada1962 Zhdanovist1966 conceptual1969 conceptualist1973 po-mo1987 pathetic1990 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > literary movement, school, or theory classic1743 classical1784 Alexandrian1803 romantic1812 realistic1829 realista1832 romanticist1831 symbolistic1864 symbolistical1864 neo-romantic1875 naturalistic1876 Alexandrine1877 neoclassical1877 veristic1884 impressionistic1886 impressionary1889 romanticistic1889 sensitivist1891 veritistic1894 Félibrian1908 symbolic1910 vorticist1914 Dada1918 Dadaist1918 surrealist1918 postmodernist1926 surrealistic1930 ultraist1931 socialist-realist1935 lettrist1947 social realist1949 social realistic1949 formalist1955 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > 17th century-mid 19th century > [adjective] > romanticism romantic1812 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. ii. sig. k4 Had classical taste and judgment been now established, imagination would have suffered, and too early a check would have been given to the beautiful extravagancies of romantic fabling. 1798 F. Schlegel in Athenaeum (Berlin) 1 ii. 28 Die romantische Poesie ist eine progressive Universalpoesie.] 1812 H. C. Robinson Jrnl. 19 May in E. J. Morley H. C. Robinson on Bks. (1938) I. 84 We proceeded to Coleridge's first lecture... He spoke of religion, the spirit of chivalry,..and a classification of poetry into ancient and romantic. 1813 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 206 The poetry of the Spanish peninsula seems to have been more romantic and less subject to classical bondage than that of any other part of Europe. 1820 Ld. Byron Ded. to Goethe 14 Oct. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1830) II. 358 I perceive that in Germany, as well as in Italy, there is a great struggle about what they call ‘Classical’ and ‘Romantic’. 1830 L. von Mühlenfels Introd. Course German Lit. 80 As the characteristics of modern or romantic art, I pointed out its tendency towards the infinite, its longing for the unearthly, [etc.]. 1848 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy Past & Present II. 65 That new school of literature to which the vague denomination of Romantic had been generally applied. 1937 D. Bush Mythol. & Romantic Trad. in Eng. Poetry p. xiii The effect of both the romantic and the industrial movements was to make the artist, if not an anti-social figure, at any rate an isolated one. 1951 F. Kermode Romantic Image vii. 132 The next step forward in Romantic aesthetic depended upon a new theory of language. 1989 Lit. Rev. Aug. 41/2 In theory, avant gardism is romantic individualism taken to its extreme conclusion. 2008 New Yorker 6 Oct. 87/1 He borrowed the term ‘self-development’ from the German Romantic philosopher Wilhelm von Humboldt. b. With reference to music.Used esp. with reference to music composed in the second half of the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > style of composition grandc1666 romantic1836 routinier1837 parodistic1845 rococo1868 virtuose1873 virtuosic1879 galant1884 polymorphous1890 monothematic1894 rococo1904 impressionistic1908 salon1914 gallant1925 athematic1935 non-thematic1946 minimalistic1947 stochastic1958 progressive1963 minimal1968 post-minimal1971 minimalist1977 1836 Musical Libr. Jan. Suppl. 30/1 When Carl Maria von Weber opened to himself a new path, by that work of genius, Der Freischutz, what is called romantic music was by several stamped as belonging to a peculiar school. 1838 Musical World 19 Jan. 38 The fourth [epoch of instrumental music], which has been styled the romantic, grew up from the forms of orchestral music. 1885 J. C. Fillmore Pianof. Music 80 In romantic music content is first and form subordinate. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 810/1 By the ‘Romantic School’ in music is meant the group of active spirits in that movement which began in Germany with Weber (born 1786)... Or it can be carried back as far as Schubert (born 1797) and Beethoven (born 1770). 1991 Music & Lett. 72 114 Hoffmann's observations on orchestration..anticipate a primary concern of Romantic music: ‘colour’ as a component of composition. 2007 Gramophone Feb. 13/3 Unlike the broad brushstrokes of Romantic opera, Baroque gives us stories with complex emotions and a lot going on. B. n. †1. A writer of romances. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [noun] > writer or composer of romance romancer?a1400 romancealist1652 romancist1653 romantic1664 1664 W. Gordoun in J. Fullarton Turtle-dove sig. c^v Vain Utopian stories, which Romanticks fain, Who busk Chymerick notions, which are not Else where, but in the fanciers brain begot. 2. A romantic feature, characteristic, etc.; (chiefly in plural) romantic behaviour or manner. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > quality appealing to emotion or imagination > [noun] > feature or characteristic having romantic1678 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [noun] > romantic feature romantic1678 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. vi. 269 Some Legendary Fabler, that has stufft a Farce with Romanticks. 1805 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (2002) II. 2515 Of country—Great Britain for me—none of your romantics! 1835 Ld. Abinger Let. 20 Aug. in P. C. Scarlett Mem. (1877) 163 I can..give you a place back to town in my great coach, by the romantics of Buxton, Bakewell, and Matlock. 1887 W. Black Sabina Zembra 221 There you are with your romantics again. 1908 Sewanee Rev. Jan. 117 The stirring novels and romances of Scott..have delighted the hearts of so many school-boys and girls. ‘I just love his romantics,’ exclaimed one of the latter. 1952 A. Koestler Arrow in Blue 184 I was twenty-three and had had my fill of the East—both of Arab romantics and Jewish mystique. 3. Frequently as Romantic. a. An adherent or practitioner of Romanticism in literature, art, etc.; a Romanticist. Cf. New Romantic n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > artist of specific movement or period mannerist1695 romanticist1821 trecentist1821 classicist1827 romantic1827 expressionist1850 classicalist1851 Gothicist1861 literalist1862 realist1868 modernist1879 verist1884 classic1885 symbolist1888 decadent1890 veritist1894 neoclassicist1899 neo-romantic1899 renaissancer1899 social realist1909 avant-garde1910 futurist1911 pasticheur1912 Bloomsbury1917 postmodern1917 pre-Romantic1918 Dadaist1919 German expressionist1920 super-realist1925 surrealist1925 New Romantic1930 brutalist1934 socialist-realist1935 avant-gardist1940 New Negro1953 neo-modernist1958 bricoleur1965 popster1965 sound artist1966 performance artist1975 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary movements or theories > adherent of modernist1703 symbolist1812 romanticist1821 classicist1827 romantic1827 symbolizer1854 archaist1867 realist1868 verist1884 naturalist1888 naturist1892 Teutonist1894 veritist1894 literary theorist1896 neoclassicist1899 social realist1909 futurist1911 postmodernist1914 vorticist1914 postmodern1917 Scythian1923 surrealist1925 populist1930 ultraist1931 socialist-realist1935 lettrist1946 New Negro1953 formalist1955 pre-modernist1962 Scyth1972 dirty realist1987 po-mo1996 1827 T. Carlyle in C. E. Norton Two Notebks. of T. Carlyle (1898) 111 Grossi..has written a new Epic... Grossi is a Romantic. 1865 Reader 3 June 619/1 This enthusiasm for enthusiasm..was natural to the whole race of romantics of that day. 1882 R. L. Stevenson in Longman's Mag. Nov. 77 Walter Scott is out and away the king of the romantics. 1927 R. H. Wilenski Mod. Movement in Art 30 Nineteenth-century romantics deliberately left out all the features which the admirers of classical painting were accustomed to regard as indispensable to art. 1960 A. O. Lovejoy in M. H. Abrams Eng. Romantic Poets 15 To be unsophisticated, to revert to the mental state of ‘simple Indian swains’, was the least of the ambitions of a German Romantic... The greatness of Shakespeare, in the eyes of these Romantics, lay in his Universalität. 1966 H. G. Schenk Mind of European Romantics i. 6 Rationalism was attacked by the Romantics not on the grounds that the intellectual results yielded by it were false, but rather on the grounds that they were inadequate. 2001 P. Ball Bright Earth xiv. 373 The idea of the sublime, so treasured by the nineteenth-century Romantics. b. A composer of Romantic music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer by type of music fuguist1789 symphonist1789 melodist1826 threnodist1827 instrumentalist1838 melophonist1847 polyphonist1864 musical dramatist1866 operettist1867 tone poet1874 orchestrator1875 French Impressionist1876 monodist1888 romantic1892 neoclassicist1899 orchestralist1899 variationist1900 mensuralist1901 tone-painter1903 impressionist1908 pre-Romantic1918 phrase-maker1924 polytonalist1925 atonalist1929 dodecaphonist1953 serialist1954 twelve-toner1955 miniaturist1962 minimalist1969 tonalist1982 1892 Musical Times Sept. 523/1 The Romantics..are Weber, Meyerbeer, Spohr, Marschner, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, and Chopin. 1916 Musical Q. 2 94 We have lived through an epoch, which, beginning with the classical composers, led us to the Romantics, and which, with Schönberg as the last of the Romantics, is drawing to its close. 1961 C. Clutton in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages ii. 66 The [organ] works of Liszt and Franck,..and of such late romantics as Reger, Jongen, and Elgar, rely upon a very large instrument. 1992 Music Anal. 11 352 (note) The more ‘conservative’ Romantics such as Schumann, Brahms, and, above all, Verdi. 4. A romantic, sentimental, or idealistic person. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > [noun] > person having romancera1623 romantist1827 romantic1829 romanticist1831 1829 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 437/1 Thither now repair..unthrifty young men who have nearly broken their parents' hearts, misanthropes, alarmists, romantics, [etc.]. 1886 Trans. New Shakspere Soc. 1880–6 544 Fenton and Anne Page..are in love, romantics, and not such jovial characters as the others. 1914 L. J. Vance Lone Wolf xvii. 204 The countenance of the stout Frenchman was lightened with a gleam of eager interest—inveterate romantic that he was! 1952 E. Anderson Plants, Man & Life iii. 45 Once he is in the field, the average taxonomist is an incurable romantic. Watch him take a group of students on a field trip. 1991 Observer 22 Sept. 2/4 High-profile Green Jonathan Porritt..bluntly told grassroots romantics to ‘grow up’. 2003 E. Noble Reading Group 248 Her imagination was always ready to flesh out the facts with a story cobbled together from a thousand made-for-television movies, bonkbuster novels and a romantic's heart. Compounds C1. a. Complementary, as romantic-looking, romantic-seeming, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1789 E. Rigby Let. 2 July in Dr. Rigby's Lett. (1880) 4 I don't think they [sc. the cliffs] are higher or more romantic looking than those at Mundsley. 1829 Foreign Q. Rev. Aug. 399 Having reviewed this extraordinary and romantic-seeming army, the Duke of Guise never questioned but that he would be next day complete master of Naples. 1847 H. Melville Omoo lxxviii. 301 He was a sun-burnt, romantic-looking European. 1931 E. O'Neill Mourning becomes Electra i. i. 29 He's such a darned romantic-looking cuss. Looks more like a gambler or a poet than a ship captain. 1974 Backpacker Spring 333 Those romantic-sounding small backpacking specialty manufacturers such as Sierra Designs, Kelty, Gerry, Jan Sport, [etc.]. 1995 Newsday (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Nassau & Suffolk ed.) a103 Pewter stands, decorated with French-braided ribbons for romantic-looking table centerpieces. b. Parasynthetic, as romantic-scened, romantic-themed adjs. ΚΠ 1828 Sporting Mag. 21 224 The hunting events of the romantic-scened county. 1994 Billboard (Nexis) 23 July 56 Future ‘Cinema Jazz’ releases will include a romantic-themed album. C2. romantic comedy n. (originally) a comedy having qualities associated with a literary romance (cf. sense A. 1a); (subsequently also) a film or other work with a light, comedic tone and a plot centring on a romantic relationship (often viewed in a sentimental or idealized way); this style or genre; cf. romcom n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > other types of comedy Old Comedy1529 New Comedy1542 comedy of errors?1595 romantic comedy1748 musical comedy1765 comédie larmoyante1773 sketch1789 serio-comedy1808 vaudeville1827 teacup-and-saucer comedy1842 satyr play1845 Restoration comedy1866 zarzuela1888 situation comedy1893 sex comedy1915 sitcom1956 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types romantic comedy1748 epic1785 pre-release1871 foreign film1899 frivol1903 dramedy1905 film loop1906 first run1910 detective film1911 colour film1912 news film1912 topical1912 cinemicrograph1913 scenic1913 sport1913 newsreel1914 serial1914 sex comedy1915 war picture1915 telefilm1919 comic1920 true crime1923 art house1925 quickie1926 turkey1927 two-reeler1928 smellie1929 disaster film1930 musical1930 feelie1931 sticky1934 action comedy1936 quota quickie1936 re-release1936 screwball comedy1937 telemovie1937 pickup1939 video film1939 actioner1940 space opera1941 telepic1944 biopic1947 kinescope1949 TV movie1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 deepie1953 misterioso1953 film noir1956 policier1956 psychodrama1956 free film1958 prequel1958 co-production1959 glossy1960 sexploiter1960 sci-fier1961 tie-in1962 chanchada1963 romcom1963 wuxia1963 chick flick1964 showreel1964 mockumentary1965 sword-and-sandal1965 schlockbuster1966 mondo1967 peplum1968 thriller1968 whydunit1968 schlocker1969 buddy-buddy movie1972 buddy-buddy film1974 buddy film1974 science-fictioner1974 screwball1974 buddy movie1975 slasher movie1975 swashbuckler1975 filmi1976 triptych1976 autobiopic1977 Britcom1977 kidflick1977 noir1977 bodice-ripper1979 chopsocky1981 date movie1983 kaiju eiga1984 screener1986 neo-noir1987 indie1990 bromance2001 hack-and-slash2002 mumblecore2005 dark fantasy2007 hack-and-slay2007 gorefest2012 kidult- 1748 T. Nugent tr. J.-B. Dubos Crit. Refl. Poetry & Painting II. xxx. 299/2 They were accustomed for a long time to a coarse or Romantic comedy, which entertained them with low, or improbable adventures. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. v. l. 125 They looked like a couple dropped out of a romantic comedy. 1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 123 The poetic drama must have an emotional unity... The romantic comedy is a skilful concoction of inconsistent emotion. 1937 N.Y. Times 17 Apr. 15 (heading) It's a romantic comedy at the Roxy: By title ‘Love is Young’. 1991 Film Comment Mar.–Apr. 49/3 The conventions of romantic comedy have..grown yet more appealing with the passage of time. 2008 N.Y. Mag. 21 Apr. 116/1 Jason Segal delivers as the..lead of this raunchy romantic comedy..about a dumpee who flees to Hawaii, only to find his ex..staying at the same resort. Romantic irony n. (also with lower-case initial in the first element) Literary Criticism an attitude of detached scepticism adopted by an author towards his or her work, typically manifesting in literary self-consciousness and self-reflection. [After German romantische Ironie (early 19th cent. or earlier). This conception of irony originated with the German Romantic writer and critic Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829).] ΚΠ 1853 Brit. Q. Rev. Nov. 374 Respecting this romantic irony, as it is called, some assertions have been made which would appear only to proceed from misapprehension. 1908 P. E. More Shelburne Ess. 5th Ser. 119 Like Friedrich Schlegel, he indulges in the romantic irony of smiling down upon himself and walking through life like a Doppelgänger. 2010 Slavic Rev. 69 193 Among Kahn's collateral aims is to overturn conceptions of Pushkin as a poet of wild nature, strange attractions, fragmentary open structures, or undecidable Romantic irony. Romantic Revival n. the resurgence of interest in the literature of earlier periods during the late 18th and early 19th centuries which gave rise to the Romantic movement. ΚΠ 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. v. 81 Hearne..executed the whole of the afore-mentioned drawings for the ‘Antiquities of Great Britain’, the first dawn of the modern Gothic and Romantic revival. 1866 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 515 That great intellectual movement in Europe, which may be termed the romantic revival or reaction,..began just a hundred years ago with the publication of Percy's Reliques. 1930 W. Empson Seven Types Ambiguity i. 27 Before the Romantic Revival the possibilities of not growing up had never been exploited so far as to become a subject for popular anxiety. 2004 M. Lauster in S. Bann Reception W. Pater in Europe viii. 185 The essay reads like the retrospective of a lonely survivor from the era of the Romantic revival. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). romanticv. Brit. /rə(ʊ)ˈmantɪk/, U.S. /roʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: romantic adj. Etymology: < romantic adj. Compare earlier romanticize v. rare. intransitive and transitive = romanticize v. Also with up. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > render romantic [verb (transitive)] romantic1926 Disneyfy1965 1926 Cosmopolitan Sept. 60/1 When a girl fell in love or thought she had, she went and got all mushed-up and sentimental; went mooning around sentimentalizing and rhapsodizing and romanticking and everything. 1969 G. Lyall Venus with Pistol xxii. 137 It was a fairly flat scene of somewhere in Venice, a bit romanticked up. 1972 Guardian 8 June 2/1 ‘Elizabeth R’ starts a new run if you like your history romanticked. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1650v.1926
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