antihero
pronunciation
How to pronounce antihero in British English:
UK [ænti:'hɪərəʊ]
How to pronounce antihero in American English:
US [ˈæntiˌhɪro, ˈæntaɪ-]
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- Noun:
- a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine)
Word Origin
- antihero (n.)
- also anti-hero; 1714, from anti- + hero.
Example
- 1. Like you 're some badass antihero in everyone else 's story ?
- 2. How a bank robber became an antihero in france .
- 3. It 's the central conflict of john wayne 's antihero .
- 4. I am not , of course , the first person to notice the similarity between mitt romney 's business career and the fictional exploits of oliver stone 's antihero .
- 5. A commonplace paradox that was soon to characterize fiction was that the antihero , who was beset and disempowered by modern bureaucracies and machines , was simultaneously exalted by his diminished status .