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# romantic

«romantic» in Mova's school dictionary: **About love between people: a romantic film, a romantic…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (romantic, more romantic); noun (a romantic, romantics)

### meaning for a pupil

1) About love between people: a romantic film, a romantic dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#m1)

2) Beautiful and dreamy in a way that stirs the feelings: a romantic old castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#m2)

3) Having ideas that are lovely but not realistic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#m3)

4) (noun) A person who dreams of love or adventure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#m4)

5) (art, history) Romantic with a capital R: about the Romantic movement in art and poetry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories, a romantic film or gift. In art and literature lessons, Romantic poets loved nature. Phrases: hopeless romantic, romantic comedy.

### examples

- Mum and Dad had a romantic dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#x1)
- The castle on the hill looked romantic in the mist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#x2)
- It's a romantic film, so my brother won't watch it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#x3)
- Dad is a hopeless romantic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#x4)
- Thinking you'll be rich without working is a romantic idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#x5)
- The Romantic poets wrote about lakes and mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#x6)
- "That is quite a romantic story," said the young man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/#x7)

### note

Adverb: romantically; noun: romance. «Rom-com» is short for romantic comedy.

### In the corpora

- [Grown-ups call very sweet romantic film scenes "soppy", and children are allowed to look away or roll their eyes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/15/)
- ["A couple" means two people in a romantic relationship.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «romantic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romantic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.