Definitions for Pyrrhic

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Pyrrhic pyr·rhic

Spelling: [pir-ik]

IPA: /ˈpɪr ɪk/

Pyrrhic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in Pyrrhic (chiprry).

Definitions for Pyrrhic

noun

1. Also called dibrach. a pyrrhic foot.
2. an ancient Greek warlike dance in which the motions of actual warfare were imitated.

adjective

1. consisting of two short or unaccented syllables.
2. composed of or pertaining to pyrrhics.
3. of, relating to, or denoting this dance.
4. of, relating to, or resembling Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, or his costly victory.

Origin of Pyrrhic

1620-30; Latin pyrrhichius Greek pyrrhíchios pertaining to the pyrrhíchē pyrrhic²

Examples for Pyrrhic

You have the pyrrhic dance as yet;Where is the pyrrhic phalanx gone?

This will be a war of attrition and a pyrrhic and Camdean Victory for myself.

However, if that is all that isaccomplished, it will be a pyrrhic victory.

Legislators are no longer thinking ahead even as far as the next election; all their focus is on the next pyrrhic victory.

But Methuen's first engagements seemed to him to be pyrrhic victories.

The pyrrhic dance of the Greeks was a sort of military Pantomime.

It's a pyrrhic symbolic victory that could actually be causing extra environmental damage.

They had the pyrrhic dances, but they had the pyrrhic phalanx as well!

But Howard Kurtz says it could prove a pyrrhic victory that could threaten his second-term agenda.

This was a pyrrhic victory; the State had absorbed the Inquisition.