ROMANTICIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does romanticist mean? 

• ROMANTICIST (noun)
  The noun ROMANTICIST has 2 senses:

1. someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality

2. an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism

  Familiarity information: ROMANTICIST used as a noun is rare.

• ROMANTICIST (adjective)
  The adjective ROMANTICIST has 1 sense:

1. belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts

  Familiarity information: ROMANTICIST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROMANTICIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

romanticist; sentimentalist

Hypernyms ("romanticist" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

romanticism (impractical romantic ideals and attitudes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

romantic; romanticist

Hypernyms ("romanticist" is a kind of...):

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)

Antonym:

classicist (an artistic person who adheres to classicism)

Derivation:

Romanticism (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization)

• ROMANTICIST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

romantic; romanticist; romanticistic

Context example:

romantic poetry

Pertainym:

Romanticism (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization)

 Context examples 

Idealist and romanticist that I was and always had been in spite of my analytical nature, yet I had failed till now in grasping much of the physical characteristics of love.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)