Lexic.us

Definition of Romanticize

1. Verb. Interpret romantically. "Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!"

2. Verb. Make romantic in style. "The designer romanticized the little black dress"

3. Verb. Act in a romantic way.

Definition of Romanticize

1. Verb. (transitive) To make something romantic or to view something in a romantic manner ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To think or act in a romantic manner ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Romanticize

1. [v -CIZED, -CIZING, -CIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Romanticize

romantically romanticisation romanticisations romanticise romanticised romanticises romanticising romanticism romanticisms romanticist

romanticistic romanticists romanticizable romanticization romanticizations romanticize romanticized romanticizes romanticizing romanticly

romanticness romantics romany romarchite romas romaunce romaunt romaunts rombergism rombowline

Literary usage of Romanticize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Romanticism and the Romantic School in Germany by Robert Maximillian Wernaer (1909)
"1 How much akin these words are to those of Novalis above quoted:1 "By giving the finite the appearance of the infinite, I romanticize." To "romanticize ..."

2. Modernism in Religion by James Macbride Sterrett (1922)
"In many ways we need to romanticize, to recover much from them that we have lost. ... But no cultured mind can romanticize to the full; ..."

3. Life Overrules Death-Anti Terror/World Peace Poems by Nikhil Parekh (2005)
"... blossoming each instant into an unbelievable festoon of joyous ecstasy, Romanticize exotically; and let others romanticize too; enlightening their lives ..."

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