- 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.
- 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.
