Amorous vs Romantic - What's the difference?
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Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.
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Indicating love or sexual desire.
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Of or relating to, or produced by, love.
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(lb) Affected with love; in love; enamored.
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(obsolete) Fictitious, imaginary.
Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
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, title= Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance).
A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).
As adjectives the difference between amorous and romantic
is that amorous is inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment while romantic is of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.As a noun romantic is
a person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance).amorous
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Alternative forms
* amourousAdjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
(inclined or having a propensity to love) loving; fond; affectionateReferences
* *romantic
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Alternative forms
* romantick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco.
- Somehow she wasn't a real sister, but that only made her the more romantic .
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Synonyms
* (concerned with romance) nonplatonic, lovesomeAntonyms
* platonic, queerplatonic, nonromantic, unromantic, aromantic, antiromantic, nonsexualDerived terms
* bromantic * romantically * romanticism * romanticnessNoun
(en noun)- Oh, flowers! You're such a romantic .