Definitions for pyrrhics

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pyrrhics pyr·rhic

Spelling: [pir-ik]

IPA: /ˈpɪr ɪk/

Pyrrhics is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in pyrrhics (chiprrsy).

Definitions for pyrrhics

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 pyrrhics

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

Examples for pyrrhics

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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