antihero

1. 1.

   a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine)

   Broaderprotagonist

Other forms of antihero

plural

antiheroes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about antihero

What does antihero mean?

antihero means "a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine)".

How many syllables are in antihero?

antihero has 4 syllables and divides as an-ti-he-ro under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.