anti-romantic

American  

[an-tee-roh-man-tik, an-tahy-] / ˌæn ti roʊˈmæn tɪk, ˌæn taɪ- /

Or antiromantic

adjective

1. not involving love or romance.

   One way to ignore Valentine's Day is to do something on the anti-romantic end of the spectrum and watch some horror movies with other single friends.

2. characterized by or portraying a view of love and relationships that is practical rather than idealized, and often transactional or circumstantial.

   The anti-romantic comedy-drama espouses a frank and scathing view of sexual relations.

3. realistic; pragmatic; practical.

   It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults.

   His anti-romantic poetry is a reaction to the real and immediate experience of war, depicted in all its scarring reality.

4. Sometimes anti-Romantic in a style that is unlike or in opposition to the romantic style in music, art, literature, etc..

   The composer’s works incorporate experimentalism in a way that is decidedly anti-romantic.

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Other Word Forms

• anti-romantically
  adverb
• antiromantically
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of anti-romantic

anti- ( def. ) + romantic ( def. )

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

anti-romantic

For now, they conspire to rule over a fractious post-revolutionary France, and also to transform this lavish palatial drama and sinewy war epic into a veritable anti-romantic comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

“But just as romance has to understand the potential for sadness, the resolutely anti-romantic Yang knows you need a dollop of romance if you want to break your readers’ hearts.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

Notoriously self-flagellating, compulsively anti-romantic, “he was never truly comfortable unless he was seething with unhappiness at something.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2017

Think about a prenuptial agreement – realism does not have to be anti-romantic.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2017

At the beginning of the nineteenth century France, the inventor of "Gothic" architecture and chivalry romance, whose literature was the most influential of mediaeval Europe, still represented everything that is most anti-mediaeval and anti-romantic.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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