Noun: heroics hi'row-iks
- Ostentatious, vainglorious, extravagant or melodramatic conduct
"heroics are for those epic films they make in Hollywood"
- A verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
"Homer's 'Iliad' is written in heroic verse";
- heroic verse, heroic meter
Type of: acting, epic, epic poem, epos, heroic poem, performing, playacting, playing
Encyclopedia: Heroic