Heroic
[hɪ'rəʊɪk] or [hə'roɪk]
Definition
(adj.) having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes; 'the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy'; 'heroic explorers' .
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity; 'heroic legends'; 'the heroic age' .
Typist: Marion--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
(a.) Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.
Typed by Hester
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Brave, valiant, courageous, intrepid, bold, daring, gallant, fearless, dauntless, noble, magnanimous.[2]. Epic.
Edited by Barton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Brave, undaunted, chivalrous, daring, romantic, gallant, fearless, courageous,intrepid, dauntless
ANT:Dastardly, cowardly, cravenly, poltroonish
Checker: Muriel
Examples
- I fear I must,' said Bob, with heroic firmness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Casaubon must have raised some heroic hallucination in her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Nor for heroic resignation either. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- At least it must be owned, that heroic virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Often as not they disguise it under heroic phrases and still louder affirmation, just as most of us hide our cowardly submission to monotony under some word like duty, loyalty, conscience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I thought the tradesman looked heroic. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The noble lady's condition on these delightful occasions was one compounded of heroic endurance and heroic forgiveness. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But I was restrained, when I thought of the heroic and suffering Elizabeth, whom I tenderly loved, and whose existence was bound up in mine. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Did not the recollection of the heroic simplicity of the Homeric life nerve you up? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She turned scarlet and was on the verge of crying, when she met Laurie's eyes, which would look merry in spite of his heroic efforts. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Emmy was not very happy after her heroic sacrifice. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Well, you are always heroic and transcendental, said Mr. Shelby, but I think you had better think before you undertake such a piece of Quixotism. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Well, he is a lofty man of genius, and admires the great and heroic in life and novels; and so had better take warning and go elsewhere. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Julia had lately got nearly to the bottom of her heroics with Cotton. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Nay, I continued, this fit of heroics to me is ridiculous. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Oh, he is indeed a most adorable heavenly creature, rejoined Amy, turning up her eyes in a fit of heroics. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Edited by Bessie