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as in exotic
excitingly or mysteriously unusual
she dreamed of meeting a tall, romantic stranger who would introduce her to a life of adventure
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as in impractical
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
a workshop intended to disabuse would-be innkeepers of the romantic notion that running a bed-and-breakfast is easy
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as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
she's a hopeless romantic who believes that her one true love is somewhere waiting to be found
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Recent Examples of romantic
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
Cyn Santana is officially off the market, as the Uptown beauty has shared a photo of herself in a romantic embrace with author and restauranteur, Chef Kwame Onwuachi.
—Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 22 Jan. 2025
Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
Louise was a hopeless romantic who helped Carrie piece her life back together after Big jilted her at the altar.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 29 July 2024
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Adjective
Yet keeping his romantic life in the closet torments him.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
Cyn Santana is officially off the market, as the Uptown beauty has shared a photo of herself in a romantic embrace with author and restauranteur, Chef Kwame Onwuachi.
—Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
Tapping into her inner romantic, Blake Lively plays Adaline in this 2015 film about a young woman who suffers a freak accident that leaves her at 29 years old for the rest of her life.
—Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
Louise was a hopeless romantic who helped Carrie piece her life back together after Big jilted her at the altar.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 29 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for romantic
Adjective
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Dark matter might not interact with regular particles at all, or the interaction might happen through some exotic mechanism that doesn't involve the Higgs.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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Foster is skilled at making clients feel good about one or another technical novelty: the largest possible sheets of structural glass, an exotic new ventilation system, an arch holding up a stadium’s roof.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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On top of that, Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, which may serve as a looming — albeit impractical — deadline for recovery.—
Denise Chow,
NBC News,
22 Jan. 2025
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Developing advanced tools entirely in-house is often impractical for financial institutions.—
Rahim Harji,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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That would be ideal — and MLK was, if anything, an idealist, a dreamer.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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In 1980, The Times noted, a report that two hefty gold nuggets had turned up in the Sierra Madre foothills sent a new generation of dreamers back into the hills.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Luther allegedly continued to purchase and inject the counterfeit Botox despite knowing clients had fallen ill or experienced strange symptoms, Sassoon said.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
22 Jan. 2025
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The current situation with Lenovo’s Legion Go S is a strange one.—
Jason Evangelho,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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McCourt’s pitch tries to encompass not just his idealistic vision for the Internet but pragmatic capitalist arguments.—
Clare Malone,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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Your celestial ruler, Venus, is shining an idealistic light on your social circles, long-term goals and dreams, but Jupiter retrograde in Gemini urges you to consider your financial stability and sense of self-worth.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Sly and the Family Stone were a multi-ethnic, multi-gender, multi-genre group when such concepts still seemed impossibly utopian on both the charts and the streets, led by a songwriter who deserved to be mentioned in the same breath as Mozart, Miles and McCartney.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Jan. 2025
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Some fans feel Section 31 is antithetical to the utopian legacy the original series was trying to build.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Her program prioritizes outside time and operates out of several yurt-style classrooms brimming with natural light and colorful Montessori materials.—
Kerry McDonald,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Every home is haunted by its previous residents, but prewar apartments in the Village have particularly colorful ghosts.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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As so began a quixotic quest, snowballing into winter, cheered by skiers and snowboarders in Oregon and beyond, to raise about $200 million and wrest Mt. Bachelor from the corporate titans of a consolidating industry.—
John Branch,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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The goal should not be eradicating EOL—a quixotic effort—but rather determining and defending acceptable risk.—
Ismail Amla,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Romantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/romantic. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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