Adjective: heroic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more heroic |
| Superlative | most heroic |
Sample Sentences
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heroic deeds
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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. [1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 40:]
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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. [1999, W. Peter Iliff, Varsity Blues, spoken by Mox (James Van Der Beek):]
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“I am the one who runs from both the living and the dead,” he says early on—not an especially heroic sentiment. [2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2022:]
Adjectives inflected like heroic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Partly from Middle French heroïque and partly from Latin hērōicus. By surface analysis, hero + -ic. See: Latin Adjectives '
hērōicus'.
Verbs referencing "heroic"
Swedish Adjectives
heroisk, Finnish Adjectives
herooinen.