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Romantic vs Dreamer - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between romantic and dreamer

is that romantic is a person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance) while dreamer is one who dreams.

As an adjective 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.

romantic

English

Alternative forms

* romantick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (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.
  • *
    • 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.
  • * 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
    • Somehow she wasn't a real sister, but that only made her the more romantic .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.

    • Synonyms

    * (concerned with romance) nonplatonic, lovesome

    Antonyms

    * platonic, queerplatonic, nonromantic, unromantic, aromantic, antiromantic, nonsexual

    Derived terms

    * bromantic * romantically * romanticism * romanticness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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).
    • Oh, flowers! You're such a romantic .

    Descendants

    * French: (l) * Italian: (l)

    dreamer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who dreams.
  • Someone whose beliefs are far from realistic.
  • * 1971 , (John Lennon),
    • You may say I'm a dreamer
    But I'm not the only one
    I hope someday you'll join us
    And the world will live as one.
  • A common name applied to anglerfish of the family .

    • Anagrams

    * English agent nouns