heroic

English

Alternative forms

• heroick

Etymology

Partly from Middle French heroïque and partly from Latin hērōicus. By surface analysis, hero +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɪˈɹəʊ.ɪk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɪˈɹoʊ.ɪk/

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• Hyphenation: he‧ro‧ic
• Rhymes: -əʊɪk

Adjective

heroic (comparative more heroic, superlative most heroic)

1. Of or relating to a hero or heroine; supremely noble.

   heroic deeds

2. Courageous; displaying heroism.
   • 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎^[1], Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 40:

     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.

   • 1999, W. Peter Iliff, Varsity Blues, spoken by Mox (James Van Der Beek):

     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.

3. (sculpture) Of a size larger than life, but less than colossal.

Synonyms

• herolike

Antonyms

• cowardly

Derived terms

• heroically
• heroic assumption
• heroic cooling
• heroic couplet
• heroic dose
• heroic medicine
• heroic meter
• heroics
• mock-heroic

 

Related terms

• hero
• heroine
• heroism

Translations

of or relating to a hero or heroine

• Armenian: հերոսական (hy) (herosakan)
• Belarusian: геро́йскі (hjerójski)
• Bulgarian: геро́йски (bg) (gerójski)
• Catalan: heroic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 豪邁／豪迈 (hô-māi)

• Danish: heroisk
• Esperanto: heroa
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• Galician: heroico
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• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: gaisciúil
• Italian: eroico (it)
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• Macedonian: херојски (herojski)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: heroisk

  Nynorsk: heroisk

• Ottoman Turkish: قوچاق (koçak)
• Polish: bohaterski (pl), heroiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: heróico (pt)
• Romanian: eroic (ro)
• Russian: геро́йский (ru) (gerójskij)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: heroisk (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: геро́йський (herójsʹkyj), звитя́жний (zvytjážnyj)
• Volapük: (♂♀) heroedanik, (♂) hiheroedanik, (♀) jiheroedanik

of or relating to heroism

• Arabic: بُطُولِيّ (buṭūliyy)
• Armenian: հերոսական (hy) (herosakan)
• Belarusian: гераі́чны (hjeraíčny), геро́йскі (hjerójski)
• Bulgarian: герои́чен (bg) (geroíčen)
• Catalan: heroic (ca)
• Czech: hrdinský (cs), heroický (cs)
• Danish: heltemodig, heroisk
• Esperanto: heroa
• Finnish: sankarillinen (fi), urhoollinen (fi)
• French: héroïque (fr)
• Galician: heroico
• Georgian: გმირული (gmiruli)
• German: heldenhaft (de), heroisch (de)
• Greek: ηρωϊκός (iroïkós)

  Ancient: ἀγήνωρ (agḗnōr)

• Ido: heroala (io), heroatra (io)
• Irish: laochúil
• Kazakh: қаһармандық (qaharmandyq), ерлік (erlık), батырлық (batyrlyq)
• Macedonian: херојски (herojski)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: heroisk

  Nynorsk: heroisk

• Occitan: eroïc
• Ottoman Turkish: قوچاق (koçak)
• Polish: bohaterski (pl), heroiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: heróico (pt)
• Romanian: eroic (ro)
• Russian: герои́ческий (ru) (geroíčeskij), геро́йский (ru) (gerójskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ју̀на̄чкӣ, хѐро̄јски

  Roman: jùnāčkī (sh), hèrōjskī (sh)

• Slovak: hrdinský, heroický
• Slovene: junaški
• Spanish: heroico (es)
• Swedish: heroisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: герої́чний (herojíčnyj), геро́йський (herójsʹkyj), звитя́жний (zvytjážnyj)
• Volapük: heroedik (vo)

Noun

heroic (plural heroics)

1. A heroic verse.

See also

• heroics

Anagrams

• cheiro-, coheir

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hērōicus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈɾɔjk]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [eˈɾɔjk]

Adjective

heroic (feminine heroica, masculine plural heroics, feminine plural heroiques)

1. heroic

Derived terms

• heroicament

Related terms

• heroi
• heroïna
• heroisme

Further reading

• “heroic” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.