anti-heroine
anti-heroine is the alternative form of antiheroine.
Meaning of antiheroine
Noun
antiheroine (plural antiheroines)
- A female protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals; a female antihero.
- Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A...2009 January 18, Charles Isherwood, “Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2012
Forms of anti-heroine
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Origin of anti-heroine
From anti- + heroine.
Questions about anti-heroine
- What is anti-heroine the alternative form of?
- Anti-heroine is the alternative form of antiheroine.
Words near anti-heroine in the dictionary
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