anti-romantic
Americanadjective
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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“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
Merciless toward its characters as well as the audience, "The Graduate" plays on a new viewing like a subversive, anti-romantic film best categorized as a bleak parody of the happily-ever-after genre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2017
Think about a prenuptial agreement – realism does not have to be anti-romantic.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2017
At the time, Égoïste’s anti-romantic theme was a novel idea and became a potent alternative to the fairy tale story lines customarily used to sell fragrances.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2016
But George Eliot, whatever may have been her preliminary enthusiasms, was radically and permanently anti-romantic.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
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