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unheroic
adjective
uk /ˌʌn.hɪˈrəʊ.ɪk/ us /ˌʌn.hɪˈroʊ.ɪk/
not brave or great:
The text presents him as a failed and unheroic king.
We want audiences to like his character, but he seems distinctly unheroic.
not suitable for a hero(= a person who has done something very brave, or the main character in a story):
We met in the distinctly unheroic setting of the school canteen.
The country stayed neutral by making unheroic compromises.
He was an unheroic figure in jeans and a T-shirt.
She is the decidedly unheroic heroine of this original novel.
I enjoyed the story because of the unheroic nature of the journey.
Many of her actions were pretty unheroic.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Cowardly
be afraid of your own shadowidiom
bottle
bottle out
chicken
chicken out
cravenness
fainthearted
gutless
lily-livered
pantywaist
spinelessly
spinelessness
timid
timidity
timidly
uncourageous
weak-kneed
wimp
wimp out
wimpy
Opposite
heroic
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