anti-romantic
adjective
not involving love or romance.
antiromantic
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a variation of
anti-romantic.
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a word derived from
romantic.
romanticadjectiveof, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance.
Example Sentences
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It has been 18 years since Pavese's suicide, and U.S. publication of these four antiromantic novellas gives American readers a chance to see why his work is so highly regarded in his native Italy.
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The direction, by Terry Hands, who also staged Much Ado, is as antiromantic as the translation.
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Were this antic reversal all, Colwin could be categorized as an antiromantic romantic, half in love with the dreams she punctures.
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This offers a sense of proportion, and so is thoroughly antiromantic.
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Like Look Back in Anger's star, Kenneth Haigh, Finney typifies the antiromantic, non-U hero who has emerged from the new social realism of the British theater.
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