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Utopian vs Romantic - What's the difference?

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Utopian is a related term of romantic.


As adjectives the difference between utopian and romantic

is that utopian is ideal but often impractical; visionary while romantic is romantic (pertaining to the romance era).

As a noun utopian

is someone who supports or heralds the establishment of a utopia.

utopian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Ideal but often impractical; visionary.
  • a utopian project
  • of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia
  • utopian happiness

    Synonyms

    *

    Antonyms

    * *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who supports or heralds the establishment of a utopia
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    Anagrams

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    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.
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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 .
  • * {{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)