Antonyms for romance
roʊˈmæns, ˈroʊ mænsro·mance

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1. Romanceadjective

   Synonyms:
   Romanic

2. Romanceadjective

   Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: as in Portuguese, Italian, French, and Spanish.

   Synonyms:
   Romanic

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1. romance

   A dream is strictly a train of thoughts, fantasies, and images passing through the mind during sleep; a vision may occur when one is awake, and in clear exercise of the senses and mental powers; vision is often applied to something seen by the mind through supernatural agency, whether in sleep or wakefulness, conceived as more real and authoritative than a dream; a trance is an abnormal state, which is different from normal sleep or wakefulness. A reverie is a purposeless drifting of the mind when awake, under the influence of mental images; a day-dream that which passes before the mind in such condition. A fancy is some image presented to the mind, often in the fullest exercise of its powers. Hallucination is the seeming perception of non-existent objects, as in insanity or delirium. In the figurative sense, we speak of dreams of fortune, visions of glory, with little difference of meaning except that the vision is thought of as fuller and more vivid. We speak of a trance of delight when the emotion almost sweeps one away from the normal exercise of the faculties.

   Antonyms:
   certainty, fact, reality, realization, substance, verity

   Synonyms:
   day-dream, dream, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, reverie, trance, vision

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1. romance

   Antonyms:
   history, narrative, truth, fact

   Synonyms:
   fable, fiction, novel, marvel, rhapsody, rodomontade, gasconade, balderdash

Matched Categories

1. • Latin
   • Lie
   • Love

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. love affair, romancenoun

   a relationship between two lovers

   Synonyms:
   love affair, love story, romanticism

2. romanticism, romancenoun

   an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

   Synonyms:
   love affair, love story, romanticism

3. Romance, Romance language, Latinian languagenoun

   the group of languages derived from Latin

   Synonyms:
   romanticism, love affair, love story

4. love story, romancenoun

   a story dealing with love

   Synonyms:
   love affair, love story, romanticism

5. romanceadjective

   a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life

   Synonyms:
   romanticism, love affair, love story

6. Romance, Latinverb

   relating to languages derived from Latin

   "Romance languages"

7. woo, court, romance, solicitverb

   make amorous advances towards

   "John is courting Mary"

   Synonyms:
   solicit, coquet, accost, court, tap, woo, chat up, philander, butterfly, mash, flirt, beg, coquette, hook, dally

8. romanceverb

   have a love affair with

   Synonyms:
   solicit, coquet, court, woo, chat up, philander, butterfly, mash, flirt, coquette, dally

9. chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mashverb

   talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

   "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"

   Synonyms:
   flirt, crush, womanise, court, squelch, solicit, play, dally, coquette, coquet, butterfly, comminute, dawdle, toy, woo, bray, womanize, grind, squeeze, philander, crunch, mash, chat up, squash, trifle

10. romanceverb

    tell romantic or exaggerated lies

    "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country"

    Synonyms:
    solicit, coquet, court, woo, chat up, philander, butterfly, mash, flirt, coquette, dally

How to use romance in a sentence?

1. Raymond Crane:

   A novel without romance is like a car without an engine - love is the fuel.

2. Gemma Allen:

   The earlier and more transparent people are about money, even if they respectfully disagree and learn to adjourn and come back, the better it is, the romance and your relationship will be better.

3. Lesley Manville:

   … You’re seeing real pockets of tenderness with how [the characters] are dealing with getting older and approaching that time of their lives, i always see Cathy and Michael at the center of it all, having this 'will they, won’t they.' Will this romance happen? Is it alright to be falling in love at this time in your life with your dead husband’s best friend? It’s very tenderly and delicately written, and I think people want to see a romance that is about two middle-aged people, rather than a romance with strapping young 20-somethings.

4. Joe Heron:

   We’re immigrants, and the romance of America still burns quite brightly inside us, nobody had defined themselves as an American brandy.

5. Fran Drescher:

   I’m just going to put trust in the universe, and I know that [romance] will happen when it’s meant to.

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