romantic

adj

1. imaginative, original, inventive, creative, poetic; capricious, whimsical, flighty; irresponsible, unstable, unpredictable, quixotic, erratic, irregular, wild; eccentric, odd, strange, bizarre, queer, freakish, freaky; grotesque, mad, wild, crazy; frivolous, unpractical, impractical, impracticable; extravagant, rococo, baroque, showy, ostentatious, Byzantine.

2. unrealistic, starry-eyed, dreamy, head-in-the-clouds, out of touch with reality, Latin, in nubibus, Sl. spacy, dreamy; idealistic, perfectionist, philosophical, transcendental; optimistic, hopeful, Panglossian.

3. sentimental, sensitive, tender, tender-hearted, soft, understanding, considerate, sympathetic, compassionate, loving, fond; impressionable, susceptible, maudlin, overemotional; mawkish, saccharine, Inf. sticky, Inf. sugary, Inf. mushy.

4. amorous, ardent, passionate, erotic; lustful, burning, desirous; stimulated, excited, aroused, Inf. hot, Inf. turned-on; impassioned, fervent, fervid, perfervid; emotional, emotive, excitable.

5. imaginary, fictitious, fabulous, improbable; unreal, fancied, fanciful, fantastic; illusory, visionary, quixotic, shadowy, chimerical; mythical, mythological, legendary; figmental, Active, notional, abstract; preposterous, far-fetched, Inf. far-out, Inf. way-out; cloud-built, air-drawn, unsubstantial, impractical; phantasmal, phantasmic, phantasmagorial, phantasmagoric.

n

6. romanticist, idealist, dreamer, daydreamer, stargazer, knight errant, Don Quixote; visionary, impractical person, ivory-tower planner, theorist, armchair quarterback; idealist, pursuer of ideals, perfectionist; metaphysicist, philosopher, transcendentalist, spiritualist, ideologist.