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say it: hi-ROH-iks
heroics is a noun meaning "ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct". It is pronounced /hɪˈɹoʊɪks/ — hi-ROH-iks. 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.