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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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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