UNROMANTIC Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

unromantic

adjective

Definition of unromantic

as in unsentimental

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Recent Examples of unromantic That seemingly unromantic shift towards feeling more like roommates than crushes isn’t inherently bad. — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 8 Apr. 2026 Small-Business Mindset Listening to both Cook and Drew, all of this sounds unromantic in the best possible way. — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2026 Using these unromantic, 50,000-ton auxiliaries to test the new battleship hull-form, mechanical systems or electrical innovations makes sense. — Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 13 Jan. 2026 The most unromantic, perfect proposal. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unromantic

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Adjective

Yet Gabriele is notably unsentimental about the prestige attached to any particular stockist.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Smith Galer has much to say against the case for putting languages out of their misery, but her focus is on a point with which even the most unsentimental can surely sympathize.

— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

Definition of unsentimental

Adjective

Without data, your marketing partner is measuring in a vacuum and only providing you with metrics of their marketing efforts, rather than measuring those efforts against bottom-line results.

— Samantha Scott, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Heather Diehl | Getty Images Shares of Intel are 3% higher this morning after the company beat top- and bottom-line expectations for the second quarter.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 24 July 2026

Definition of bottom-line

Adjective

More importantly, the researchers found that the effective logical error rate was 10 times lower than the physical error rate.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026
The Cardinals needed an available reliever more than a starter recovering from a 77-pitch appearance, making Dobbins the logical roster casualty despite his otherwise solid work during his first extended opportunity in the major leagues.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of logical

Adjective

Tentpoles with integrity will be especially important as generative AI makes the industry’s appetite for replicable content more cynical by the day.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 July 2026
In its portrayal of cross-gender relations, the series is consistently cruel to women, insulting to men, empathetic toward nobody and cynical about everything.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026

Definition of cynical

Adjective

If writing a 10-page proposal yields $30,000 in capital faster than closing 50 cold calls, a rational business owner will devote their afternoons to proposal writing.

— AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
So much for the rational part of an exasperating season that marked the first time since 2014 that the Chiefs failed to make the playoffs.

— Vahe Gregorian July 31, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026

Definition of rational

Adjective

Such commonsensical strategies can turn a proposal that initially seems like opening Pandora’s box into a mechanism for improving the safety of radical conservation interventions.

— Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
Some ideas are so commonsensical that government is the last to adopt them.

— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2026

Definition of commonsensical

Adjective

Most sensible observers will recognise that his level of influence sits somewhere in the middle.

— Gregg Evans, New York Times, 31 July 2026
By Season 6, however, Schroeder had evolved into the most sensible person on the Bravo hit, and her love affair with Beau Clark won over the audience’s hearts.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 July 2026

Definition of sensible

Adjective

Just as reasonable public health officials had warned, measles is now finding vulnerable victims across the country.

— Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2026
No reasonable person would argue against providing animals with excellent medical care.

— Marianne Pizzitola, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026

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