It was heroic of them to oppose the enemy.
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Heroic
//hɪˈɹəʊ.ɪk//
Synonyms for "heroic" (224 found)
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Closest matches (45)
Strong matches (67)
Related words (112)
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1 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesRelated terms
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1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
6 entriesTranslations
80 translations across 38 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀγήνωρ adj (of or relating to heroism)
Arabic
1 entries- بُطُولِيّ adj (of or relating to heroism)
Armenian
2 entries- հերոսական adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- հերոսական adj (of or relating to heroism)
Belarusian
3 entries- гераі́чны adj (of or relating to heroism)
- геро́йскі adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- геро́йскі adj (of or relating to heroism)
Bulgarian
2 entries- геро́йски adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- герои́чен adj (of or relating to heroism)
Catalan
2 entries- heroic adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- heroic adj (of or relating to heroism)
Chinese
1 entries- 豪邁 /豪迈 adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
Czech
2 entries- heroický adj (of or relating to heroism)
- hrdinský adj (of or relating to heroism)
Danish
3 entries- heltemodig adj (of or relating to heroism)
- heroisk adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- heroisk adj (of or relating to heroism)
Dutch
2 entries- heldhaftig adj (of or relating to heroism)
- heroïsch adj (of or relating to heroism)
Esperanto
2 entries- heroa adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- heroa adj (of or relating to heroism)
Finnish
2 entries- sankarillinen adj (of or relating to heroism)
- urhoollinen adj (of or relating to heroism)
French
2 entries- héroïque adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- héroïque adj (of or relating to heroism)
Galician
2 entries- heroico adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- heroico adj (of or relating to heroism)
Georgian
1 entries- გმირული adj (of or relating to heroism)
German
2 entries- heldenhaft adj (of or relating to heroism)
- heroisch adj (of or relating to heroism)
Greek
2 entries- ηρωικός adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- ηρωικός adj (of or relating to heroism)
Ido
2 entries- heroala adj (of or relating to heroism)
- heroatra adj (of or relating to heroism)
Indonesian
1 entries- heroik adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
Irish
2 entries- gaisciúil adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- laochúil adj (of or relating to heroism)
Italian
1 entries- eroico adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
Kazakh
3 entries- батырлық adj (of or relating to heroism)
- ерлік adj (of or relating to heroism)
- қаһармандық adj (of or relating to heroism)
Macedonian
2 entries- херојски adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- херојски adj (of or relating to heroism)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- heroisk adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- heroisk adj (of or relating to heroism)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- heroisk adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- heroisk adj (of or relating to heroism)
Occitan
1 entries- eroïc adj (of or relating to heroism)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- قوچاق adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- قوچاق adj (of or relating to heroism)
Polish
4 entries- bohaterski adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- bohaterski adj (of or relating to heroism)
- heroiczny adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- heroiczny adj (of or relating to heroism)
Portuguese
2 entries- heróico adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- heróico adj (of or relating to heroism)
Romanian
2 entries- eroic adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- eroic adj (of or relating to heroism)
Russian
3 entries- геро́йский adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- геро́йский adj (of or relating to heroism)
- герои́ческий adj (of or relating to heroism)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- hèrōjskī adj (of or relating to heroism)
- jùnāčkī adj (of or relating to heroism)
- хѐро̄јски adj (of or relating to heroism)
- ју̀на̄чкӣ adj (of or relating to heroism)
Slovak
2 entries- heroický adj (of or relating to heroism)
- hrdinský adj (of or relating to heroism)
Slovene
1 entries- junaški adj (of or relating to heroism)
Spanish
1 entries- heroico adj (of or relating to heroism)
Swedish
2 entries- heroisk adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- heroisk adj (of or relating to heroism)
Ukrainian
4 entries- геро́йський adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- геро́йський adj (of or relating to heroism)
- герої́чний adj (of or relating to heroism)
- звитя́жний adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
Volapük
4 entries- heroedanik adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- heroedik adj (of or relating to heroism)
- hiheroedanik adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
- jiheroedanik adj (of or relating to a hero or heroine)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Who can read the heroic deeds of brave men without a feeling of respect and admiration?
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What I looked up to in Shota was not his 'strength'. It was his heroic courage to put his life on the line to carry out his convictions.
Source: tatoeba (328287)
It's not long gone failure, nor heroic deeds to come, but here and now, which you should consider.
Source: tatoeba (633736)
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