Definition of "antiheroic" []

• Of or pertaining to an antihero. (adjective)

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• "The heroes are mostly antiheroic, and the milieu is more frenetic than credible, but it's no surprise that this novel is a 2008 Hugo Award nominee."
• "The memories of the people who actually knew him overshadow the tragic, antiheroic Hendrix of popular imagination."
• "And Watchmen itself has gone mainstream: There's a movie coming out (see our article " Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen Movie ,") that supposedly faithfully follows the original antiheroic exploits of Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan, and their traumatized, Nietzsche-haunted, not-so superfriendly cohorts."