Flirty vs Romantic - What's the difference?
flirty | romantic |
Flirting, or seeming to flirt.
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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 flirty and romantic
is that flirty is flirting, or seeming to flirt 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).flirty
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Adjective
(er)- This was one flirty dress. Way too sultry for a first date, especially with someone she might have no real interest in.
Synonyms
* flirtatiousDerived terms
* flirtily * flirtinessromantic
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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 .