Definitions for hybris

hybris hy·bris

Spelling: [hahy-bris]
IPA: /ˈhaɪ brɪs/

Hybris is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in hybris (bhirsy).

Definitions for hybris

noun

  1. hubris.

Examples for hybris

Insolent disregard of propriety, "hybris," was the quality most denounced by the early moralizing poets.

The crime of hybris, which to the Greeks was the "unforgivable sin," is here made as real to us as it was to them.

The vice which they denounced was hybris, wilful bondbreaking—wilful transgression of the socially appointed bounds.

Word Value for hybris
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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