heroic
adjEtymology
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Of or relating to a hero or heroine
Of or relating to a hero or heroine; supremely noble.
- heroic deeds
Courageous
Courageous; displaying heroism.
- To stand upon the ramparts and die for our principles is heroic. To sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.
- Now, we go out there and we half-ass it because we're scared, all we're left with is an excuse. We're always gonna wonder. But, we go out there and we give it absolutely everything… that's heroic.
- “I am the one who runs from both the living and the dead,” he says early on—not an especially heroic sentiment.
Of a size larger than life, but less than colossal.
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A heroic verse.
The neighborhood
Derived
antiheroic, heroically, heroic assumption, heroic cooling, heroic couplet, heroic dose, heroic epic, heroicize, heroicly, heroic medicine, heroic meter, heroicness, heroicomic, heroicomical, heroics, mock-heroic, nonheroic, postheroic, preheroic, pseudoheroic, semiheroic, sheroic, superheroic, ultraheroic, unheroic
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at heroic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at heroic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at heroic
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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