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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Hyphenation of Pyrrhic

Pyrrhic

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • Pyrrhic is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Pyrrhic synonyms

Meaning metrical foot:

foot

Meaning king:

king

Meaning dibrach:

dibrach

Anagrams of Pyrrhic

Pyhrric

Words that rhyme with Pyrrhic

myrrhic, pyrrhic

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