word-vault/dist/data/cards/ro/romantic.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "romantic",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "connected with or about love or a sexual relationship",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a romantic candlelit dinner"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **romantic comedy**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "romantic stories/fiction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not interested in a **romantic relationship**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It wasn't even until a hundred or so years ago that the concept of **romantic love** in marriage gained any real popularity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Like every actor starting out in the business, he longed to play dashing romantic leads."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "showing feelings of love",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Why don't you ever give me flowers? I wish you'd be more romantic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You're getting quite romantic in your old age!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm hopelessly romantic and dreamy."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "beautiful in a way that makes you think of love or feel strong emotions",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "romantic music"
                },
                {
                    "text": "romantic mountain scenery"
                },
                {
                    "text": "romantic images of deserted beaches"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It sounded romantic and exciting to work in the Walled City, but few stuck it more than a few weeks."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "having an attitude to life where imagination and the emotions are especially important; not looking at situations in a realistic way",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a romantic view of life"
                },
                {
                    "text": "When I was younger, I had romantic ideas of becoming a writer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a romantic notion of living off the land"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "used to describe literature, music or art, especially of the nineteenth century, that is about strong feelings, imagination and a return to nature, rather than reason, order and intellectual ideas",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Romantic movement"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Keats is one of the greatest Romantic poets."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rəʊˈmæntɪk/",
                "audio": "ro/romantic/romantic__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rəʊˈmæntɪk/",
                "audio": "ro/romantic/romantic__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (referring to the characteristics of romance in a narrative): from archaic romaunt ‘tale of chivalry’, from an Old French variant of romanz, based on Latin Romanicus ‘Roman’. (see romance)."
}