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| Main Entry: | romantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, idealistic |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, amorous, charming, chimerical, chivalrous, colorful, corny*, daring, dreamy, enchanting, erotic, exciting, exotic, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fond, glamorous, idyllic, impractical, loving, maudlin, mushy*, mysterious, nostalgic, passionate, picturesque, poetic, quixotic, sloppy*, starry-eyed, tender, unrealistic, utopian, visionary, whimsical, wild, bathetic, fairy-tale, lovey-dovey, soppy, syrupy, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | pragmatic, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adventurer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who takes risks |
| Synonyms: | charlatan, daredevil, entrepreneur, explorer, gambler, globetrotter, hero, heroine, madcap, mercenary, opportunist, pioneer, pirate, romantic, speculator, swashbuckler, traveler, wanderer, fortune-hunter, stunt person, venturer, voyager |
| Main Entry: | amatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affectionate, desirous |
| Synonyms: | amorous, aphrodisiac, ardent, devoted, doting, erotic, fervent, fond, languishing, lovesick, loving, passionate, rapturous, romantic, sentimental, tender, yearning, admiring, attracted, wooing |
| Antonyms: | hateful, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | amorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loving, affectionate |
| Synonyms: | amative, amatory, aphrodisiac, ardent, doting, enamored, erotic, fond, horny*, hot, hot and heavy, impassioned, infatuated, lovesick, lustful, passionate, romantic, sexy, tender, attached, boy crazy, girl crazy, have a crush on, in love, lovey dovey, sweet for, sweet on, turned on |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, frigid, hateful, indifferent, unfriendly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dreamer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | visionary |
| Synonyms: | escapist, idealist, romantic, Walter Mitty, daydreamer, fantasizer, star-gazer, theorizer |
| Main Entry: | erotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sexy |
| Synonyms: | amative, amatory, amorous, aphrodisiac, bawdy, blue*, carnal, concupiscent, earthy, fervid, filthy, fleshly, hot*, impassioned, kinky*, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, obscene, off-color*, prurient, purple*, raunchy, raw, romantic, rousing, salacious, seductive, sensual, sexual, spicy, steamy, stimulating, suggestive, voluptuous, erogenous, titillating, venereal |
| Notes: | erotic means giving sexual pleasure or sexually arousing, while exotic means being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world or strikingly strange or unusual |
| Antonyms: | bland, cold, dull, frigid, unerotic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not native or usual; mysterious |
| Synonyms: | alien, alluring, bizarre, colorful, curious, different, external, extraneous, extraordinary, extrinsic, far out, fascinating, foreign, glamorous, imported, introduced, kinky*, outlandish, outside, peculiar, romantic, strange, striking, unfamiliar, unusual, way out, weird*, avant garde, enticing, peregrine |
| Antonyms: | familiar, normal, ordinary, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fictitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untrue, made-up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, counterfeit, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, ersatz*, factitious, fake, false, fanciful, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, made, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unreal, concocted, cooked-up, created, delusory, fabricated, faked, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, invented, suppositious, supposititious, trumped-up |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, confirmed, factual, genuine, real, sincere, sure, true, truthful, proven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fond |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | have a liking or taste for |
| Synonyms: | addicted, affectionate, amorous, devoted, doting, enamored, indulgent, loving, mushy*, partial, predisposed, responsive, romantic, sentimental, sympathetic, tender, warm, adoring, attached, caring, keen on, lovesome, lovey-dovey, silly over |
| Antonyms: | hostile, hating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | idealist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who holds fancies in mind, who believes in perfection |
| Synonyms: | dreamer, enthusiast, escapist, optimist, radical, romantic, seer, stargazer, utopian, visionary, Platonist, romancer, romanticist, theorizer, transcendentalist |
| Antonyms: | realist, pragmatist |
| Main Entry: | idealistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | visionary |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, chimerical, dreaming, impractical, optimistic, quixotic, radical, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian, idealized |
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, high-flown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, poetic, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, fictive, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetical |
| Antonyms: | dull, unimaginative, uncreative, uninventive, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impassioned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited, vehement |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, deep, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, furious, glowing, heated*, inflamed, inspired, intense, melodramatic, moving, mushy, passionate, powerful, profound, red-hot*, romantic, rousing, sentimental, starry-eyed*, stirring, torrid, violent, vivid, warm, zealous, fired up, hot-blooded, overemotional, perfervid, steamed up, white-hot, wild about, worked up |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, calm, cool, impassive, indifferent, unconcerned, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impractical/impracticable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrealistic |
| Synonyms: | abstract, absurd, chimerical, idealistic, illogical, impossible, impracticable, improbable, inapplicable, inefficacious, infeasible, inoperable, irrealizable, ivory-tower, no-go, nonfunctional, nonviable, not a prayer, otherworldly, out of the question, quixotic, romantic, speculative, starry-eyed*, theoretical, unattainable, unbusinesslike, unfeasible, unreal, unserviceable, unusable, unwise, unworkable, useless, visionary, wild, won't fly |
| Antonyms: | practicable, practical, probable, realistic, reasonable, tenable, viable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lackadaisical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless, indifferent |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, apathetic, daydreaming, disinterested, dreamy, dull, enervated, halfhearted, idle, inattentive, indolent, inert, laid-back, languid, languishing, lazy, lethargic, limp, listless, passive, romantic, sentimental, slothful, spiritless, unconcerned, energyless, faineant, incurious, languorous, moony, spring fever |
| Antonyms: | active, careful, energetic, enthusiastic, caring, hard-working |
| Main Entry: | loving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressing adoration |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, amatory, amiable, amorous, anxious, appreciative, ardent, attentive, benevolent, concerned, considerate, cordial, dear, demonstrative, devoted, doting, earnest, enamored, erotic, expressive, faithful, fervent, fond, friendly, generous, idolatrous, impassioned, infatuated, kind, liking, loyal, passionate, respecting, reverent, romantic, sentimental, solicitous, tender, thoughtful, warm, worshipful, zealous, admiring, attached, bound up, caring, reverential, valuing, warm-hearted |
| Antonyms: | mean, disliking, hating |
| Main Entry: | maudlin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | teary, overemotional |
| Synonyms: | befuddled, confused, gushing, insipid, lachrymose, mawkish, mushy*, romantic, sentimental, slush*, soap*, soapy, tearful, weak, weepy, bathetic, cornball, drippy, schmaltzy, soppy, syrupy, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | calm, matter-of-fact, unimaginative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mawkish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, emotional |
| Synonyms: | cloying, feeble, gooey*, gushing, maudlin, mushy*, nauseating, romantic, sappy*, sickening, sloppy, bathetic, gushy, lovey-dovey, schmaltzy, tear-jerking, teary |
| Antonyms: | calm, serious, unemotional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | with rhythm and beauty; related to poetic composition |
| Synonyms: | dramatic, elegiac, epic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, romantic, tuneful, anapestic, dactylic, epical, epodic, iambic, metrical, odic, rhythmical, songlike |
| Antonyms: | prosaic |
| Main Entry: | quixotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealistic |
| Synonyms: | chimerical, chivalrous, dreaming, dreamy, foolish, impetuous, impractical, impulsive, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian, visionary |
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