heroically
/hɪəˈɹəʊ.ɪk.li/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…]the prescriptive right of the leading actor to fight popularly and heroically against heavy odds."
- "They heroically struggled through the remainder of the figure, but Oh-Pshaw, completely demoralized, made one misturn after the other."
- "Heroically, the man at the stake now overcame the will of his antenna, spoke rapidly, writhingly."
- "Charles has failed to follow the example of his mother, the queen, who has heroically kept her mouth shut for more than 50 years."
- "I was sure to find Honoré at some new trick, standing say, heroically holding onto the back of a chair (oh to think that soon he will walk!) and Charles perhaps playing a pastoral suite on the alpenhorn."
Etymology
Etymology tree English heroic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English heroically From heroic + -ally.
Inflected Forms
more heroically (comparative)
most heroically (superlative)