Dictionary Entry
pyrrhic
pyrrhic is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 17 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance.
- 2adjective
Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse.
- 3noun
An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick.
- 4noun
A foot consisting of two short syllables.
- 5noun
an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
- 6noun
a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
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- 7adjective
of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)
"a Pyrrhic victory"
- 8adjective
of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables
"pyrrhic verses"
- 9adjective
of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece
"pyrrhic dance movements"
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