anti-romantic
adjective
an·ti-ro·man·tic
| \ ˌan-tē-rō-ˈman-tik
, -rə-, ˌan-tī-\
, -rə-, ˌan-tī-\
variants:
or less commonly antiromantic
Definition of anti-romantic
: contradicting or rejecting romantic aesthetics or sensibilities
… this book of anti-romantic, practical advice about common life problems … — Publishers Weekly Critics often identify the novel of manners with a Jamesian, antiromantic perspective, but one should remember that Jane Austen also wrote novels of manners, and there courtship always produces a "happily ever after."— David R. Shumway
Other Words from anti-romantic
anti-romanticism
or less commonly antiromanticism \ ˌan-tē-rō-ˈman-tə-ˌsi-zəm
, -rə- , ˌan-tī- \
noun
, -rə- , ˌan-tī- \
noun
If anything defines the art of Weimar Germany it is an attitude of deliberate anti-romanticism, shared of course by the Bauhaus School; a hatred of sentimentality and pretense.
— Ian Buruma
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