romanticizing
present 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
Examplesofromanticizing
romanticizing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
We should not empower the sentimental patient byromanticizingpatient - physician relationships.
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This said, it is important to caution againstromanticizingcommunitarian arrangements over the use of the local commons.
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Situated approaches to literacy have been accused of "relativism" and of "romanticizing" the local context.
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None of these declarations, highlyromanticizingin their effect, is subjected to the kind of critical scrutiny that is strenuously advocated elsewhere in the book, with damaging consequences.
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This mixed approach is a way to avoidromanticizingor demonizing one side or another in the eighteenth-century confrontation, and capture the duality of law in its full complexity.
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Literature followed different cultural currents, sometimesromanticizingand idealizing girlhood, and at other times developing under the influence of the growing literary realism movement.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It carries to its ultimate absurdity the fashion forromanticizinggangsters, for even in defeat the public enemy is endowed with grandeur.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Although he was influenced by naturalism and verismo, hisromanticizingproductions were basically historical idylls.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He is noted by critics for his remarkably exhaustive accounts and for his tendency to avoidromanticizinghis subjects' lives.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But with time the meaning of the verse changed as people beganromanticizingit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is due in part to the fact that unlike that pirate his absence from most of the archipelago's recorded history prevented theromanticizingof his life and legacy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The emphasis rests on the wrongness this collection emphatically rejects theromanticizing, the domestication of the traditional tropes, which of course makes me regard it favorably.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Britain's tradition of collectivism he interprets as a decadent,romanticizinghumanism, anti-industrial, riddled with illusions, and perpetuated by the public-school system.
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