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