A person who feels like they will never find love, and questions why anyone would want them to begin with. Despite this, they still yearn to fall in love anyway.
Person 1: What’s up with Person 3 lately
Person 2: You know, same old same old.
Person 1: Surrendered Romantic
Person 2: mhm.
Capital accrued from generating romantic feelings from a romantic interest.
When I bought her flowers for Valentine Day, my romantic capital with her increased.
I was trying to build my romantic capital by taking her to an expensive restaurant for dinner. She thought her romantic capital was going to increase when she got me socks and a tie as a Valentine's Day present. It DID NOT. Good riddance to her, they are the only sock I wear these days.
Someone who is in love with the idea of meeting someone on an online video game and then falling in love with each other.
"A hopeless romantic? Nah I'm more of a hopeless GAMER romantic!"
Peyton Regan: someone who longs for love
Omg she's such a Hopeless romantic
A phrase that has been consistently confused for “HELPLESS romantic”, but people continue to use because people who know better are so afraid to correct erroneous or nonsensical words these days. The original phrase “HELPLESS lover” means someone who CAN’T HELP falling in love, e.g. they fall in love very easily. “Hopeless romantic” may have become a joke that’s a play on the originally phrase, implying that someone loves romance but it ends up badly for them. Unfortunately millennials and younger generations took “hopeless romantic” as the synonymous with HELPLESS romantic and ran with it without anyone ever correcting it.
“Yeah, I’m a bit of a hopeless romantic.”
“Uh, you mean *helpless* romantic?”
A hopeless romantic is a person who’s definition of love isnt as simple as the type of love one can experience.
A: Omg ure a hyunjin
B: What does that mean
C: Ure a hopeless romantic
he writes to you via gmail after you told him you were going to send him a restraining order
him: I LOVE YOU PETRA
you: ugh he's such a hopeless romantic