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Synonyms for romance

31 synonyms
2 antonyms
4 meanings

verb
noun

Most common

chat up butterfly flirt coquette chase after spark beau suitor

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Flirt

flirt, coquette, chat up, butterfly, mash, philander

2. Woo

woo, court, solicit

Other

love, beau, suitor, spark, chase after, address, make love dated

Noun

1. Love affair

love story, love affair

2. Fiction

fiction, novel, story, work of fiction, fable

Other

adventure, romanticism, fascination, rhapsody, balderdash, dolly, romanza rare, romanticness rare

Antonyms

nonromance, antiromance

All antonyms of romance →

Definitions

v. 1
To woo; to court.
v. 2
To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
n. 1
An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
n. 2
A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.

Related words

Word family: romantic
Phrases: romance fraud romance scam scientific romance

Forms

Plural: romances → fictions, novels, stories, fables…
Past participle: romanced
e.g. romanced → flirted, coquetted, butterflied, mashed…

Example sentences

butterfly Ziri smiled as the butterfly landed on his finger.
flirt Yanni liked very much to flirt with young women.
spark The science is there, what's missing is the spark.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
romance		rising
butterfly		rising
flirt		rising
coquette		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: woo¹
4 letters: love¹, beau¹, mash¹
5 letters: story², court¹, novel², spark¹, flirt¹, dolly², fable²
6 letters: suitor²
7 letters: address², fiction², solicit³, romanza
8 letters: rhapsody³, coquette
9 letters: adventure³, butterfly³, philander³
10 letters: balderdash³
11 letters: fascination⁴, romanticism⁵
12 letters: romanticness

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (story² = 2 syllables).