Collocations for "romantic"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "romantic" in context.
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romantic
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- a romantic [lover, partner, spouse, husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend]
- is not a very romantic [lover]
- is not very romantic (at all)
- is [very, quite, really] romantic at heart
- a romantic [novel, story, book, play, movie, song, comedy]
- a romantic [setting, city, vacation, getaway]
- a romantic [meal, dinner, lunch, evening, picnic] (at)
- a romantic candlelit dinner
- as a romantic gesture
- [composed, wrote, played] a romantic song (about)
- get to [see, know, discover] his romantic side
- that's the most romantic thing you've ever [said to, done for] me
- a (rather) romantic [view, vision, notion] (of)
- [an incurable, a true, a perfect] romantic
- am just a hopeless romantic
- ever the romantic
- is a romantic at heart
- the [wave, scene, music] of new romantics
- literature: [English, French, American] Romantics
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