hopeless romantics
Incurable believers in love
Hopeless romantics are people who maintain idealistic beliefs about love despite evidence or experience to the contrary.
The phrase combines romantic—one who idealizes love—with hopeless, suggesting the tendency is incurable rather than despairing.
A hopeless romantic believes in soulmates, grand gestures, and love conquering all: She's a hopeless romantic who cries at every wedding.
- wishYearned-for outcome
- dreamSleeping mind's narrative
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
- head over heelsUtterly and deeply enamored
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
idealism · emotion · star-crossed lovers · desires · affection · lovers · passions · melancholy · sentimentality · sacrificing · against all odds · adoration · crushes · unrequited love · devotion · grand gestures · overcommitting · amours
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
- loverslover, lovers, beloved, sweethearts, sweetheart
- dreamersdreamer, dreamers, daydreamer, daydreamers, visionary
hopeless romanticscommitment-phobes
Those avoiding lasting bonds
cold fish · stoics · ice queens · players · heartbreakers
hopeless romanticsstoics
Uncomplaining hardship bearers
emotional detachment · cold fish · ice queens · hard-hearted · emotionally unavailable
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