Meaning

One who is not a hero; a nonhero..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who is not a hero; a nonhero.
2. A hero who does not fit the archetype of a hero; an antihero.

Example Sentences

On one level of meaning this unhero is clearly a political statement, a protest of the military and governmental authority. But he is not that alone; he is also a statement against all masculine assertion as this has been traditionally understood. The unhero nevertheless has his unheroine mate.

Comic unheroes are brilliant in practice, tragic heroes only in theory, and their theory lets them down, especially in its conception of their own importance. The comic unheroes know that nobody is important to the world, which is why they won't die for it, and why they play the nobody, getting out of harm's way.

The trials of living with an "unhero" are many.

C, in “One of the Best (Because I Worked so Hard on This)” engages readers in understanding relationships among comic book “unheroes” and how often “unheroes” relate to children “caught up in the system.”

Everyone in the story is absolutely outside time, everything in it is terribly old-fashioned and affected, the "hero" with all of his experiences is infinitely shallow, pompous, and low-standard. He is in principle an "unhero" and everything in the story is in principle deheroized.

Not only dead, this poem's contemptible unhero is deadening as well.

Hence, Dalmia comes out sounding like a gambler at heart, not unlike the famous Yudhishthira, the 'unhero' of the Mahabharata.

Word Forms

• unheroes

When Should You Use Unhero?

Use unhero when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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