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

Etymology

Origin of anti-romantic

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