Homeric

/həʊˈmɛɹɪk/

Synonyms for "homeric" (72 found)

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Closest matches (15)

Adjective(2 words)
archaic greekbardic

Strong matches (21)

Adjective(5 words)
epicgrandiloquentgrandioseheroichomeric dialect
Adjective(2 words)
homericalhomerican

Related words (36)

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  • Closest matches in this entry: abysmal, alcaic, anacreontic, archaic greek, astronomic.
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Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

6 entries
ancient Greekdialectepic poetryfigurative languageliterary styleliterature

More specific

6 entries
Homeric epithetHomeric grammarHomeric lexiconHomeric similegrandiloquenceheroic diction

Collocations

6 entries
Homeric GreekHomeric epicHomeric epithetHomeric poetryHomeric simileHomeric style

Inflections

2 entries
more Homericmost Homeric

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

But Cicero does not seem even to have had a religious sentiment to cover the nakedness of his political opportunism. Not only does he in the Tusculan Disputations put aside in the Platonic fashion all the Homeric tales which anthropomorphize and discredit the gods; but in his treatise On Divination he shows an absolute disbelief in all the recognized practices, including the augury which he himself officially practised; and his sole excuse is that they are to be retained “on account of popular opinion and of their great public utility.”

Source: tatoeba (12115362)

The warmeſt admirers of the great Mantuan poet [Virgil] can extol him for little more than the ſkill with which he has, by making his hero both a traveller and a warrior, united the beauties of the Iliad and the Odyſſey in one compoſition: yet his judgment was perhaps ſometimes overborne, by his avarice of the Homeric treaſures; and, for fear of ſuffering a ſparkling ornament to be loſt, he has inſerted it where it cannot ſhine with its original ſplendor.

Source: wiktionary

In the beginning of the Fourth Book the poet [John Milton] introduces an Homerick cluster of similes; which seems to mark an intention of bestowing more poetical decoration on the conclusion of the Poem, than on the preceding parts of it.

Source: wiktionary

We, having obtained knowledge of the early derivation and distribution of mankind, and of the primitive religion, from sources other than those open to Homer, shall find in this knowledge the lost counterpart of a great portion of the Homeric myths. The theological and Messianic traditions which we find recorded in Scripture, when compared with the Homeric theogony, will be found to correspond with a large and important part of it: […]

Source: wiktionary

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