Meaning

3 senses

  1. (plural, plural only)The actions of a hero.

  2. (US, plural, plural only)Emergency intervention to save a patient's life.

  3. (dated, plural, plural only)Extravagant phrases; bombast.

More definitions
  • ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Less of the heroics please, mister.

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Forms

plural: heroicses
Singularheroics
Pluralheroicses

regular

Word family

6 related words
RelatedheroA2heroineC1heroic medicineheroism
Derivedantiheroicssuperheroics

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
heroA2heroicheroinheroineC1heroism

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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