Adjective

(en adjective)

Seeming to originate in utopia; utopian

*1850 , Antonio Carlo N. Gallenga (L. Mariotti), Scenes from Italian life , pg. 133:

*:They dismissed the work as utopic , unpractical.

*1919 , Robert Briffault, The Making of Humanity , G. Allen & Unwin ltd., pg. 247:

*:[...] and those issues and the potentialities out of which they arise are such as would to any previous age, could it have so much as conceived them, have seemed the distant problems of utopic speculation.

*2000 , Tom Brass, Peasants, Populism, and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth , Routledge, ISBN 9780714649405, pg. 243:

*:By contrast, in the the utopic' vision of Hilton and Capra it is space which is traversed and not time; both ' utopic and dystopic exist in the same moment but occupy a different terrain.

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.

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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 .

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Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.