romanticized
past simple and past participle ofromanticize
romanticize
verb[I]
(UKusuallyromanticise)uk/rəʊˈmæn.tɪ.saɪz//rəˈmæn.tɪ.saɪz/us/roʊˈmæn.t̬ə.saɪz/totalkabout something in a way that makes itsoundbetterthan it really is, or tobelievethat something isbetterthan it really is:
Stop romanticizing! Nothing's thatperfect.
Exaggerating & playing down
- bloviate
- blowsomethingout of proportionidiom
- cartoonish
- catastrophize
- dramatization
- dramatize
- exaggerate
- OTT
- over-egg
- overboard
- overdramatic
- overdramatize
- overembellish
- overplay
- overstatement
- pile
- proportion
- protest too muchidiom
- stretch the truthidiom
- understate
Examplesofromanticized
romanticized
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Instead of mysterious caves, dragons, andromanticizedheroes, fantastic factory floors, gigantic machines, and larger than life machinists confront the audience.
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Their image, for the most part, is not heroic, glamourized orromanticized.
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They are alsoromanticizedin folktales as fierce, lawless, and sometimes heroic.
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They promoted an invented national "culture" including theromanticizedgaucho, an icon once reviled but now esteemed.
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Dickens attempts to set up a being devoid of theromanticizednational culture.
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They areromanticizedin folk songs, but they make poor real estate investments.
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Only as his body falls lifeless is his music exalted to a comparablyromanticizedspiritual dimension.
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Downtown, that once golden democratic spaceromanticizedby journalists, novelists and often-as-not scholars, is always in decline, always leaving behind a sense of communal loss.
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Any likelihood ofromanticizednostalgia was lessened as these resonances of the past became associated by myself and the performers with notions of abandonment, sadness, and neglect.
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Clark's highly emotionally charged departure wasromanticized, recounted to their juniors and published by the students.
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Nor is it clear that displaying an aestheticized,romanticizedfantasy image of the poor for the edification or titillation of the sinful affluent really furthers egalitarian ideals.
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Goldman argues that discourses on power were often articulated through theromanticizedrepresentations of gender and class in the opera and in 'literati' writings about performance and actors.
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Allromanticizednotions aside, the plantation house was, at its most basic, a functioning farmhouse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Western novels, or cowboy novels, portrayed the west as both a barren landscape and aromanticizedidealistic way of living.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Among the historically accurate retelling of events, preference for the oftromanticizedaccounts were sometimes used.
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