unromantic

(ˌʌnrəʊˈmæntɪk) or less common

unromantical

adj

not of, related to, imbued with, or characterized by romance

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

unromantic - neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance

unloving - not giving or reciprocating affection

unromantic

adjective

Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are:

down-to-earth, hard, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, objective, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, realistic, sober, tough-minded.

Translations

unromantic

[ˈʌnrəˈmæntɪk] ADJ → poco romántico

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unromantic

adj → unromantisch

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unromantic

[ˌʌnrəˈmæntɪk] adj → poco romantico/a

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References in classic literature

The Boeotians, people of the class of which Hesiod represents himself to be the type, were essentially unromantic; their daily needs marked the general limit of their ideals, and, as a class, they cared little for works of fancy, for pathos, or for fine thought as such.

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"Unromantic fiddlesticks!" said the unsympathetic Marilla.

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How I should like to know all her love story!" thought Kitty, recalling the unromantic appearance of Alexey Alexandrovitch, her husband.

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Brooke didn't even say, "Thank you," but as he stooped for the unromantic tool, he kissed his little bride behind the folding door, with a look that made Aunt March whisk out her pocket handkerchief with a sudden dew in her sharp old eyes.

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Petersburg and the neighboring villages was dissected, plank by plank, and its foundations dug up and ran- sacked for hidden treasure -- and not by boys, but men -- pretty grave, unromantic men, too, some of them.

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This is the most unromantic affair of the sort that ever happened.

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To get lost in fifteen minutes, so near to her home and in the unromantic State of Kansas, was an experience that fairly bewildered her.

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"I don't feel as if I wanted anything now, Miss Rose, but to find some way of thanking you for all you've done," she said, rubbing off a tear that went rolling down the bridge of her nose in the most unromantic way.

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What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic."

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name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my heart an echo, such as no other assemblage of syllables, however sweet or classic, can produce.

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A more unromantic figure than Hamilton Fynes never breathed.

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why, there never was such a humdrum, unromantic thing as I am," cried Polly, amazed.

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