An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately.
An advocate of realism; one who believes that matter, objects etc. have real existence beyond our perception of them.
One who believes in seeing things the way they really are, as opposed to how they would like them to be.
A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).
A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance).
Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
Experiencing romantic attraction.
Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.