Graceful vs Romantic - What's the difference?
graceful | romantic |
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
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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 graceful and romantic
is that graceful is having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion while romantic is romantic (pertaining to the romance era).graceful
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Alternative forms
* gracefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
Antonyms
* graceless * clumsyDerived terms
* gracefulnessromantic
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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 .
End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic . But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
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 .