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say it: hi-ROH-iks
heroics is a noun meaning "ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct". It carries one recorded sense.
ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct
“heroics are for those epic films they make in Hollywood”
plural
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for heroics come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.