romanticise

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A form of romanticize — To interpret, view, or portray something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner.

Similar
romanticizeglamorizeglamourise
OriginEnglish romantic ← Old French romaunt ← Vulgar Latin rōmānicē →
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Meanings

verbromanticise (third-person singular simple present romanticises, present participle romanticising, simple past and past participle romanticised)

present singular third person romanticises · participle present romanticising · participle past romanticised · past romanticised

  1. UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of romanticize.

    JK Rowling says that “girls are very apt to romanticise” the antihero, and reveals that she had been forced to pour “cold common sense” on the startling number of readers who fall for the arrogant, unscrupulous bully Draco Malfoy in her Harry Potter books.

    2014 December 22, Alison Flood, “JK Rowling ‘unnerved’ by girls who fall for Hogwarts bully Draco Malfoy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2016

Synonyms & antonyms

verbinterpret romantically

Similar
romanticizeglamorizeglamourise
Broader
idealizeidealise

verbmake romantic in style

Similar
romanticize
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Also see
glamorizeromanticize

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. LatinRōma
  2. LatinRōmānus
  3. Latinrōmānicus
  4. Vulgar Latinrōmānicē
  5. Old Frenchromanz
  6. Old Frenchromaunt
  7. Englishromant
  8. Englishromantic
  9. Englishromanticise

From romantic + -ise.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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