anti-sentimental

adjective

an·​ti-sen·​ti·​men·​tal

ˌan-tē-ˌsen-tə-ˈmen-tᵊl,

ˌan-tī- 

variants or less commonly antisentimental

: opposed to sentimentalism : deliberately or emphatically not sentimental

Femmes Fatales was much more than anti-sentimental, it was meant to be hatefully reactionary, to make us look at the vitality of our prejudices.

—Stanley Kauffmann

Word History

First Known Use

1808, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-sentimental

• intercontinental
• interdepartmental
• intergovernmental
• intragovernmental
• nonexperimental
• accidental
• compartmental
• continental
• detrimental
• elemental
• fundamental
• governmental