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romantic

2 noun
     
Related topics: Arts
romantic2 [countable]
1 someone who shows strong feelings of love and likes doing things that are related to love such as buying flowers, presents etc
2 someone who is not practical, and bases their ideas too much on an imagined idea of the world [≠ realist]:
a romantic who longed for adventure
3 also RomanticABO a writer, painter etc whose work is based on romanticism
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