nonhero
nounEtymology From non- + hero.
1
A character, especially a protagonist, who is not a hero.
- It doesn’t matter if that’s really his name, though, because like Melville’s enlightened nonhero, this man does not expect to survive the journey.2007 February 4, Kaiama L. Glover, “American Dream Deferred”, in New York Times:
- Related terms
- antihero