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pyrrhic
English
- 🔊 of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)“a Pyrrhic victory”
- 🔊 of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables“pyrrhic verses”
- 🔊 of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece“pyrrhic dance movements”
- 🔊 an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
- 🔊 a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables