the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One imbued with romanticism; a romantic.
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n. an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism
n. someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality
adj. belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
Word Usage
"I prefer to think of Cowper as a naturalist, of Shelley as an idealist, and of Wordsworth as a transcendental realist, and to reserve the name romanticist for writers like Scott, Coleridge, and Keats; and I think the distinction a serviceable one."