Heroic \He*ro"ic\, a. [F. h['e]ro["i]que, L. hero["i]cus, Gr.
"hrwi:ko`s.]
1. Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of
heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the
heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
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2. Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as,
heroic action; heroic enterprises.
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3. (Sculpture & Painting) Larger than life size, but smaller
than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human
figure.
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Heroic Age, the age when the heroes, or those called the
children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.
Heroic poetry, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero;
epic poetry.
Heroic treatment or Heroic remedies (Med.), treatment or
remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate
case.
Heroic verse (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epic poetry,
being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten
syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and
in classic poetry the hexameter.
Syn: Brave; intrepid; courageous; daring; valiant; bold;
gallant; fearless; enterprising; noble; magnanimous;
illustrious.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
heroic
adj 1: very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary
(especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of
heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture" [syn: epic,
larger-than-life]
2: relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity;
"heroic legends"; "the heroic age"
3: having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes; "the
heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy"; "heroic
explorers" [syn: heroical]
4: impressive in size or scope; "heroic undertakings" [syn: grand]
5: showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously
undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last
desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate
gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning
point in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic
measures to save his life" [syn: desperate]
n : a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated
themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter [syn: heroic
verse, heroic meter]
WordNet (r) 2.0
195 Moby Thesaurus words for "heroic":
Alcaic, Anacreontic, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Castalian,
Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian,
Pindaric, Theocritean, abysmal, acknowledged, admitted, alto,
altruistic, astronomic, audacious, august, bardic, baritone, bass,
big, bighearted, bold, bold-spirited, brave, bravura, bucolic,
chivalric, chivalrous, choral, choric, classical, coloratura,
colossal, conventional, courageous, customary, cyclopean, daring,
dauntless, desperate, determined, didactic, distinguished,
dithyrambic, doughty, dramatic, drastic, eclogic, elegiac,
elephantine, elevated, eminent, enormous, epic, established,
exaggerated, exalted, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, falsetto,
famous, fearless, fixed, folk, gallant, generous, giant, giantlike,
gigantic, glorious, godlike, grand, grandiose, great,
great of heart, greathearted, hallowed, handed down, handsome,
hardy, herolike, high, high-minded, hoary, honorable, huge, hymnal,
idealistic, idyllic, immemorial, immense, infinite, intrepid,
inveterate, ironhearted, jumbo, knightlike, knightly, largehearted,
lauded, legendary, liberal, lionhearted, liturgical, lofty,
long-established, long-standing, lyric, magnanimous, magnificent,
magniloquent, majestic, mammoth, manful, manly, mighty, miraculous,
mock-heroic, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous,
mythological, narrative, noble, noble-minded, of long standing,
of the folk, openhanded, operatic, oral, pastoral, plucky, poetic,
poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic,
poetlike, prescriptive, princely, prodigious, profound, prominent,
psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, renowned, rhapsodic, rooted, runic,
sacred, sapphic, singing, skaldic, soaring, soldierlike, soldierly,
soprano, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, stout, stouthearted,
stupendous, sublime, superb, tenor, time-honored, titanic,
towering, traditional, treble, tremendous, tried and true,
true-blue, unafraid, undaunted, understood, unwritten, upstanding,
valiant, valorous, vast, venerable, virile, virtuous, vocal,
wonderful, worshipful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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