pyrrhic
adjective
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of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits, especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans“The abundance of casualties rendered it a pyrrhic victory.”
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of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables“pyrrhic verses”
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of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece“pyrrhic dance movements”
noun
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an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
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a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllablesdibrach