Pyrrhic

  1. Adjective.  achieved at excessive cost.
  2. Adjective.  (prosody) Of or characterized by pyrrhics.
  3. Adjective.  (prosody) Relating to Pyrrhus, a Macedonian king, or some of his costly victories he had while fighting Rome.
  4. Noun.  An Ancient Greek war dance.
  5. Noun.  (prosody) A metric foot with two short or unaccented syllables.

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