Pyrrhic Definition
Adjective: pyrrhic pi-rik
- Of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece
"pyrrhic dance movements"
- Of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables
"pyrrhic verses"
- Of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)
"a Pyrrhic victory"
- A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
- dibrach
- An ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
Anagrams created from the word pyrrhic