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antiheroines

antiheroines is the plural of antiheroine.

Meaning of antiheroine

Noun

antiheroine (plural antiheroines)

  1. (roleplaying games) 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

Questions about antiheroines

What is antiheroines the plural of?
Antiheroines is the plural of antiheroine.

Words near antiheroines in the dictionary

  1. antiheroic
  2. antiheroically
  3. antiheroics
  4. antiheroin
  5. antiheroine
  6. antiheroines
  7. antiheroinism
  8. antiheroism
  9. antiherpes
  10. antiherpesviral
  11. antiherpesvirus

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