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🧠 Practical, unsentimental 🤝 Not about love 🎨 Not Romantic era
non-romantic

non-romantic

3.9
Not involving love or attraction between people
  • adjective
  • /nɒn-rəˈmæntɪk/
translation icon : no romántico
  • She enjoyed a non-romantic relationship with her coworkers, focusing on teamwork rather than personal feelings.

When you put your shoes, you seem check out your body in a non romantic way.

Examples

  • The discussion was non-romantic, centered around practical solutions rather than emotional concerns.

  • You have to have a non romantic, you know, connection to the result of the work.

  • Their friendship was completely non-romantic, based on shared interests and mutual respect.

Synonyms

platonic
vsnon-romantic
31 6.1

Close and caring without sexual or romantic feelings

is broader, covering any relation that does not involve love or affection
unromantic
vsnon-romantic
8 4.1

Not likely to make people feel love for each other

is a neutral label meaning simply not about love or affection

Antonyms

romantic
  • NSFW
636 3.9

Showing love and strong feeling between two people

loving
454 1.0

A person who shows strong care and warm feelings for someone

How Romantic

passionate
329 2.8
romantic
  • NSFW
636 3.9
platonic
31 6.1
non-romantic
3.9

Surface Forms

non-romantic positive

Morphology

non-romantic = romantic (transparent) = non + romantic

This sense is the direct negation of 'romantic' in the sense of involving or expressing love, which is transparent for learners.

Etymology

Non-romantic is built from non- 'not' and romantic, which is connected to romance meaning 'love' or 'a love story'. So a non-romantic relationship is simply 'not about love', like a close friendship.