pyrrhic 音標拼音: [p'ɪrɪk]
n . 出征舞,抑抑格
a . 出征舞的,抑抑格的
出征舞,抑抑格出征舞的,抑抑格的
pyrrhic adj 1 :
of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece ; "
pyrrhic dance movements "
2 :
of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables ; "
pyrrhic verses "
3 :
of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (
especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans ); "
a Pyrrhic victory "
n 1 :
a metrical unit with unstressed -
unstressed syllables [
synonym :
{
pyrrhic }, {
dibrach }]
2 :
an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare Pyrrhic \
Pyr "
rhic \,
n .
1 . [
Gr . ?:
cf .
F .
pyrrhique ,
fem .]
An ancient Greek martial dance ,
to the accompaniment of the flute ,
its time being very quick .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 . [
L .
pyrrhichius (
sc .
pes ),
Gr . ? (
sc . ?):
cf .
F .
pyrrhique ,
masc .] (
Pros .)
A foot consisting of two short syllables .
[
1913 Webster ]
Pyrrhic \
Pyr "
rhic \,
a . [
L .
pyrrhichius ,
Gr . ?
belonging to the ?
(
sc . ?)
a kind of war dance .]
1 .
Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance . "
ye have the pyrrhic dance as yet ." --
Byron .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 . (
Pros .)
Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic ,
or to pyrrhics ;
containing pyrrhic ;
as ,
a pyrrhic verse .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Pyrrhic victory } [
From Pyrrhus ,
king of Epirus .],
(
a )
a victory in which the winning side sustains very heavy losses .
(
b )
any act supposedly benefitting the actor ,
for which the costs outweight the benefits .
[
PJC ]
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "
pyrrhic ":
Alexandrine ,
accent ,
accentuation ,
amphibrach ,
amphimacer ,
anacrusis ,
anapest ,
antispast ,
antispastic ,
arsis ,
bacchius ,
beat ,
cadence ,
cadenced ,
caesura ,
catalexis ,
chloriamb ,
chloriambus ,
colon ,
counterpoint ,
cretic ,
dactyl ,
dactylic ,
dactylic hexameter ,
diaeresis ,
dimeter ,
dipody ,
dochmiac ,
elegiac ,
elegiac couplet ,
elegiac pentameter ,
emphasis ,
epitrite ,
feminine caesura ,
foot ,
heptameter ,
heptapody ,
heroic couplet ,
hexameter ,
hexapody ,
iamb ,
iambic ,
iambic pentameter ,
ictus ,
ionic ,
jingle ,
lilt ,
masculine caesura ,
measure ,
measured ,
meter ,
metric ,
metrical accent ,
metrical foot ,
metrical group ,
metrical unit ,
metron ,
molossus ,
mora ,
movement ,
numbers ,
paeon ,
pentameter ,
pentapody ,
period ,
proceleusmatic ,
prosodic ,
quantity ,
rhythm ,
rhythmic ,
scanning ,
spondaic ,
spondee ,
sprung rhythm ,
stress ,
swing ,
syzygy ,
tetrameter ,
tetrapody ,
tetraseme ,
thesis ,
tribrach ,
trimeter ,
tripody ,
triseme ,
trochaic ,
trochee
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