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romance
noun as in love affair
Strong matches
affair, amour, attachment, courtship, enchantment, fascination, fling, flirtation, intrigue, liaison, love, passion, relationship
Weak matches
noun as in fanciful story or narrative
noun as in adventure, flight of fancy
Strong matches
charm, color, excitement, exoticness, fancy, fantasy, fascination, glamour, hazard, idealization, idyll, mystery, nostalgia, risk, sentiment, venture
Weak match
Example Sentences
By the time Ruvalcaba realized she was ensnared in an elaborate romance scam bolstered by the use of artificial intelligence, she had lost nearly everything.
“What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! A wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!” according to the film’s official synopsis.
In the spy romance series Tempest, Jun Ji-hyun, one of South Korea's biggest stars, plays a diplomat trying to uncover the truth behind a deadly assassination.
Other categories include Burning Hearts, a collection of what Rose describes as “messed-up romance movies” such as “Basic Instinct,” “Moonstruck” and “Wild at Heart.”
The tender scenes of Norma's husband and mother resisting and then realising their romance has both scandalised and captured viewers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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