Pyrrhic
Meaning of Pyrrhic
adjective
(of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor.
late 19th century: from the name Pyrrhus + -ic.
noun
a metrical foot of two short or unaccented syllables.
early 17th century: via Latin from Greek purrhikhios (pous) ‘pyrrhic (foot)’, the metre of a song accompanying a war dance, named after Purrhikhos, inventor of the dance.
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Pyrrhic
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- Pyrrhic is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Pyrrhic synonyms
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