romantic:

(plural: ‘romantics‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)

‘romance’ = a strong emotional attachment (love, in this context = delicate sex) between two persons, usually young persons, of the opposite sex, a male and a female, or, these days, also between two persons of the same sex, a male and a male and a female and a female
Note: ‘Romantic’ is more commonly used as an adjective to refer to the emotional attachment involving delicate sex, and also to bravery, chivalry, adventure, etc., e.g. ‘romantic story’, ‘romantic poem’, ‘romantic person’, ‘romantic movie’, ‘romantic painting’, ‘romantic trouble’, etc.

a person who is involved in an emotional attachment with another person;

(usually with a capital ‘R’; and also ‘romanticist‘) a person who likes romantic art, romantic stories, etc.;

a person/artist/painter/writer who supports Romanticism, or gets inspiration for his/her work from romance,

Language Usage: As ‘romantic’ is used as a noun, to refer to a person and as an adjective to refer to a person or thing, there may be some confusion as to which is which. The following example may make the point clear:

He is romantic. — adjective; He is a romantic person. — adjective;

He likes romantic stories more than horror or tragedy stories. — adjective;

He is a romantic. — NOUN. The Romantics of the Romantic era. — NOUN.

For an article that shows us how this word is used as an adjective and noun in the same text, please click here.

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e.g.

Of our gang of friends, Mike is a romantic; always talks about love and lovers and lovely things.

Considering his transcendentalist ideology, one may be surprised to find Henry David Thoreau as a Romantic on the list of Romantics of the Romantic period in American literature!

Some romantics are so romantic that they see romance even in tragedy, calamity, war and in loss of their loved ones.

For an article that gives us 24 signs to know whether we are romatics or not, please click here, for an interesting article that discusses the Romantic era and Romantics of the era in Europe, please click here and for a blog post in which we see this word being used as a noun, to refer to people involved, and as an adjective to qualifying the people and the activity, please click here & for a political article about war in Syria in which we see this word being used (line 6, para 2) as a noun referring to some people with romantic ideas, please click here.

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