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Definition: Pyrrhic |
PyrrhicAdjective1. Of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece; "pyrrhic dance movements". 2. Of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables; "pyrrhic verses". 3. Of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); "a Pyrrhic victory". Noun1. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables. 2. An ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pyrrhic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Synonym: PyrrhicSynonym: dibrach (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pyrrhics are never used to construct a whole, serious poem.
For other meanings, see: Pyrrha, Pyrrhic victory.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pyrrhic."
Crosswords: Pyrrhic |
| English words defined with "pyrrhic": Glyconic ♦ Pyrrhicist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pyrrhic": Pyrrhic Dance. (references) |
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| "Pyrrhic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Pyrrhic" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.65% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "pyrrhic": pyrrhic victory. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pyrrhic victory | 20 |
pyrrhic | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pyrrhic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pirros. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سلاحية, ذو مقطعين قصيرين, رقصة حربية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | старогръцки боен танц, пирихий. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | victoire la pyrrhus (pyrrhic victory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πύρρειοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pirrhiusz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pirrico, di pirro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Pyrragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yrrhicpay pirríquio, relativo a pirro. (various references) пиррихий. (various references) stopa od dva kratka sloga. (various references) pirriquio, pírrico. (various references) pyrrhisk. (various references) gerçekte bir felâket olan zafer (pyrrhic victory), görünüşteki zafer (pyrrhic victory), büyük kayıplarla elde edilen zafer (pyrrhic victory). (various references) піриха. (various references) $pyrrhic victory$ chiến thắng phải trả bằng một giá đắt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pyrrhic": pyrrhics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pyrrhic" (pronounced pi"rik) |
| 5 | p i" r i k | vampiric. |
| 4 | -i" r i k | hemispheric, lyric, satiric, stratospheric. |
| 3 | -r i k | alphanumeric, anthropocentric, atmospheric, Baldric, barbaric, barometric, boric, caloric, choric, citric, cleric, concentric, Derrick, dissymmetric, eccentric, econometric, egocentric, electric, esoteric, ethnocentric, euphoric, fabric, gastric, generic, geocentric, geometric, geriatric, gravimetric, historic, hydroelectric, hyperbaric, hysteric, ionospheric, mercuric, mesenteric, meteoric, metric, nitric, numeric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, pediatric, photoelectric, pinprick, prehistoric, psychiatric, rubric, sophomoric, stearic, sulfuric, tantric, vitric. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-p-r-r-y" | |
-1 letter: chirpy. | |
-2 letters: chirp, chirr, pricy, pyric. | |
-3 letters: chip, pyic, rich, yirr. | |
-4 letters: chi, cry, hic, hip, hyp, ich, icy, phi, pic, pry, rip, yip. | |
-5 letters: hi, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-p-r-r-y" | |
+1 letter: chirrupy, pyrrhics. | |
+3 letters: hyperbaric, patriarchy, pyrophoric. | |
+4 letters: chirography, cryptarithm, cryptorchid, granophyric, hydrotropic, hypercritic, hypermetric, porphyritic, thyrotropic. | |
+5 letters: cardiography, cryptarithms, cryptorchids, cryptorchism, hydrographic, hydromorphic, hydrospheric, hypercritics, hyperthermic, hypertrophic, thyrotrophic. | |
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