anti-romantic

[ an-tee-roh-man-tik, an-tahy- ]

adjective

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.
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.

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.
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.

Origin of anti-romantic

I discuss this at length in my recently published memoir The anti-romantic Child.
Autism's Back-to-School Anxiety | Priscilla Gilman | September 24, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
Nothing more nor less than the anti-romantic duties of a commissary.
The Catholic World; Vol. IV.; October, 1866, to March, 1867. | E. Rameur
The word positively exuded disillusionment; it was as anti-romantic as a notebook of Herbert Spencer.
Poor Relations | Compton Mackenzie
But George Eliot, whatever may have been her preliminary enthusiasms,37 was radically and permanently anti-romantic.
The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920 | Various
But George Eliot, whatever may have been her preliminary enthusiasms, was radically and permanently anti-romantic.
Aspects and Impressions | Edmund Gosse

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