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romance - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: romance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: love affair
Synonyms: affair, amour, attachment, courtship, enchantment, fascination, fling, flirtation, intrigue, liaison, love, passion, relationship, affair of the heart, love story
Main Entry: romance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fanciful story or narrative
Synonyms: ballad, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, idealization, legend, lyric, novel, story, tale, idyll, love story, melodrama, tear-jerker
Main Entry: romance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: adventure, flight of fancy
Synonyms: charm, color, excitement, fairy tale, fancy, fantasy, fascination, glamour, hazard, idealization, mystery, nostalgia, risk, sentiment, venture, exoticness, idyll
Main Entry: exaggerate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: overstate, embellish
Synonyms: amplify, boast, boost, brag, build up, caricature, color, cook up*, corrupt, distort, embroider, emphasize, enlarge, exalt, expand, fabricate, falsify, fudge*, heighten, hike, inflate, intensify, lie, magnify, misrepresent, overdo, pad*, puff, put on, pyramid*, romance, scam, stretch, up*, blow out of proportion, go to extremes, hyperbolize, lay it on thick, loud talk, make too much of, misquote, misreport, overdraw, overemphasize, overestimate, pretty up, romanticize
Antonyms: depreciate, minimize, play down, reduce, understate
Main Entry: exaggeration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overstatement, embellishment
Synonyms: amplification, baloney*, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock*, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story*, flight of fancy*, hogwash*, hyperbole, inflation, jazz*, line*, misrepresentation, pretension, rant, romance, stretch, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, aggrandizement, magnification, misjudgment, overemphasis, overestimation, pretentiousness, tall story
Antonyms: reduction, understatement, minimization, unembellishment
Main Entry: fable
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fantasy, story
Synonyms: allegory, apologue, bunk*, crock*, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story*, hogwash*, invention, legend, lie, myth, parable, romance, tale, untruth, white lie*, whopper*, yarn, bestiary, fairy story, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, tall story
Notes: a fable is a short instructional tale, while a fairytale (or fairy tale) is told as amusement
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: fantasize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dream about desires
Synonyms: daydream, envision, hallucinate, head trip, imagine, invent, moon, romance, build castles in air, live in a dream world, trip out, woolgather
Main Entry: fiction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: made-up story
Synonyms: anecdote, book, concoction, crock*, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, fish story*, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, prevarication, romance, smoke*, tale, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, best seller, cliff-hanger, clothesline, figment of imagination, hooey, potboiler, storytelling, tall story, terminological inexactitude, work of imagination
Antonyms: truth, non-fiction
Main Entry: flirtation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: amorous advance
Synonyms: amour, dalliance, flirting, intrigue, pickup*, romance, tease, teasing, trifling*, coquetry, courting, cruising, romancing, toying
Antonyms: faithfulness
Main Entry: glamour
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sophisticated style
Synonyms: allure, animal magnetism, appeal, attraction, beauty, charisma, charm, color, enchantment, fascination, interest, magnetism, prestige, romance, allurement, bewitchment, ravishment, razzle-dazzle, star quality
Antonyms: drab, dullness, ugliness, plainness
Main Entry: hanky-panky
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: monkey business
Synonyms: amour, chicanery, dalliance, deception, dirty pool, double-dealing, fling, flirtation, fraud, liaison, love affair, mischief, monkey business*, romance, shenanigans*, skullduggery*, subterfuge, trickery, chicane, devilry, fooling around, fourberie, funny business, funny business, hankie-pankie, hokey-pokey, knavery, machinations, sexual activity, sharp practice
Antonyms: faithfulness, honesty
Main Entry: love affair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: love relationship
Synonyms: adultery, affair, amour, courtship, dalliance, devotion, entanglement, extracurricular activity*, fling, flirtation, hanky-panky, infidelity, intrigue, involvement, liaison, love, passion, relationship, romance, seduction, thing, tryst, affair of the heart, affaire de coeur, forbidden love, illicit love, ménage à trois, romantic affair, sexual relationship outside of marriage, triangle
Main Entry: novel
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fictional book
Synonyms: best-seller, fiction, narrative, prose, romance, story, tale, yarn*, cliff-hanger, novelette, novella, paperback, potboiler
Main Entry: extramarital affair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illicit sexual relationship
Synonyms: amour, fling, hanky-panky, liaison, romance, thing, two-timing, affaire, goings-on, illicit love affair, playing around
Main Entry: story
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: account, news
Synonyms: adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger*, comedy, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, gag, history, information, legend, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, novel, parable, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn*, conte, folktale, long and short of it, news item, nonfiction, old saw, potboiler
Main Entry: tale
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: story
Synonyms: account, anecdote, fable, fairy tale, fiction, folk tale, legend, myth, narration, narrative, novel, relation, report, romance, saga, short story, yarn
Main Entry: affair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illicit sexual relationship
Synonyms: amour, extracurricular activity*, fling, hanky-panky*, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, relationship, rendezvous, romance, two-timing, affaire, carrying on, goings-on, playing around, thing together
Main Entry: composition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: written or musical creation
Synonyms: arrangement, article, chart, dissertation, drama, essay, exercise, exposition, fiction, manuscript, melody, music, novel, number, opus, paper, piece, play, poetry, romance, score, setup, short story, song, stanza, study, symphony, theme, thesis, tune, verse, work, writing, cantata, concerto, getup, literary work, rhapsody
Main Entry: intrigue
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: love affair
Synonyms: affair, amour, attachment, case, flirtation, infatuation, interlude, intimacy, liaison, romance
Main Entry: liaison
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: love affair
Synonyms: amour, encounter, entanglement, fling, interlude, intrigue, romance, illicit romance
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