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ANTIHERO (antiheroes)
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Irregular inflected form: antiheroes
Dictionary entry overview: What does antihero mean?
• ANTIHERO (noun)
The noun ANTIHERO has 1 sense:
1. a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine)
Familiarity information: ANTIHERO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("antihero" is a kind of...):
agonist; protagonist (the principal character in a work of fiction)
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