antiromantic
- adjective
- /ˌæntiˈroʊmæntɪk/
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antiromántico
- Casanova is sentimental and antiromantic.
Examples
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In one of the most depressing passages of that profoundly antiromantic book, Jameson says that "The end of the bourgeois ego, or monad... means... the end of style, in the sense of the unique and the personal, the end of distinctive individual brush strokes."
Academic text (1996) -
Many contemporary artists have an antiromantic approach, focusing on realism rather than idealized love.
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Her antiromantic views on relationships made her the perfect match for someone who valued independence.
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The play had an antiromantic theme, emphasizing the difficulties and disappointments of love.
Synonyms
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Not likely to make people feel love for each other
Not involving love or attraction between people
How Romantic
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Morphology
Etymology
Antiromantic comes from the prefix anti- meaning 'against' (as in anti-war) and romantic from 'romance' or romantic ideas about love and strong feeling. So antiromantic describes someone or something that is against or rejects romantic ideas or styles.