ˈnon-hero
[non- 2 b.]
One who is the opposite or the reverse of a hero; one who is not genuinely a hero. Cf. anti-hero.
| 1940 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Sept. 10/7 In my list of non-heroes, Carol of Rumania stands close to the top. 1948 E. E. Cummings Let. 27 Jan. (1969) 181 Since our (as he's doubtless already boasted to you) non-hero was once a candidate for honours. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Nov. 657/1 These two novels..take lovable, weak, defeated men as non-heroes. 1972 Sat. Rev. 17 June 52/3 Our existential nonhero wanders through the story. |