Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Romantic \Ro*man"tic\, a. [F. romantique, fr. OF. romant. See
   {Romance}.]
   1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling
      romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal;
      as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic
      undertaking.

            Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and
            impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such
            a persuasion?                         --South.

            Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men
            have represented as chimerical and romantic.
                                                  --Addison.

   2. Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance;
      as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.

   3. Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular
      literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical
      antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style;
      as, the romantic school of poets.

   4. Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of
      adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; --
      applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.

   Syn: Sentimental; fanciful; fantastic; fictitious;
        extravagant; wild; chimerical. See {Sentimental}.

   {The romantic drama}. See under {Drama}.

Source : WordNet®

romantic
     adj 1: belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the
            Romantic movement in the arts; "romantic poetry" [syn:
             {romanticist}, {romanticistic}]
     2: expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her
        amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic
        adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" [syn: {amatory}, {amorous}]
     3: not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as
        quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a
        romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a
        world state" [syn: {quixotic}, {wild-eyed}]

romantic
     n 1: a soulful or amorous idealist
     2: an artist of the romantic period or someone influenced by
        romanticism [syn: {romanticist}] [ant: {classicist}]