overromanticize

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verb

To romanticize too much.

“It's easy to overromanticize the Middle Ages, but they were full of plague and poverty.”

OriginEnglish romanticize ← Old French romaunt ← Vulgar Latin rōmānicē →
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Meanings

verboverromanticize (third-person singular simple present overromanticizes, present participle overromanticizing, simple past and past participle overromanticized)

present singular third person overromanticizes · participle present overromanticizing · participle past overromanticized · past overromanticized

  1. transitiveTo romanticize too much.

    It's easy to overromanticize the Middle Ages, but they were full of plague and poverty.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. LatinRōma
  8. LatinRōmānus
  9. Latinrōmānicus
  10. Vulgar Latinrōmānicē
  11. Old Frenchromanz
  12. Old Frenchromaunt
  13. Englishromant
  14. Englishromantic
  15. Englishromanticize
  16. Englishoverromanticize

From over- + romanticize.

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Translations

Finnish yliromantisoida
  • yliromantisoidato romanticize too much
Cite this entry
APA

overromanticize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overromanticize

MLA

“overromanticize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overromanticize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overromanticize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overromanticize.

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