Usually means: Exhibiting courage and noble qualities.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word heroic:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. heroic: Merriam-Webster
  2. heroic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heroic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heroic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heroic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heroic, heroic: Wordnik
  7. heroic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heroic: Wiktionary
  9. heroic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heroic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heroic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heroic: Dictionary.com
  13. heroic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Heroic (horse), Heroic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Heroic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. heroic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. heroic: Rhymezone
  18. heroic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. heroic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. heroic: FreeDictionary.org
  21. heroic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. heroic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. heroic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heroic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heroic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. heroic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. heroic: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heroic: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to a hero or heroine; supremely noble.
▸ adjective:  Courageous; displaying heroism.
▸ adjective:  (sculpture) Of a size larger than life, but less than colossal.
▸ noun:  A heroic verse.

Similar:
heroical, grand, big, larger-than-life, large, impressive, brave, courageous, desperate, epic, more...

Opposite:
cowardly, villainous, ignoble, selfish, timid

Types:
brave, courageous, adventurous, valorous, gallant, dauntless, indomitable, unflinching, more...

Phrases:
Heroic Age, heroic poetry, heroic poem, heroic couplet, Heroic virtue, more...

Adjectives:
mock, onely, only, nassau, experimental, non, post, more, spiritual, first, tragic

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↻From "Born on the Fourth of July" by Tom Paxton:

In my wheelchair for life, my mechanical wife
I'm supposed to be cheerful and stoic
I'm your old tried-and-true, Yankee Doodle to you
Clean-cut, paralysed and heroic
1 of 5 verses


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Similar:
heroical, grand, big, larger-than-life, large, impressive, brave, courageous, desperate, epic, more...

Opposite:
cowardly, villainous, ignoble, selfish, timid

Types:
brave, courageous, adventurous, valorous, gallant, dauntless, indomitable, unflinching, more...

Phrases:
Heroic Age, heroic poetry, heroic poem, heroic couplet, Heroic virtue, heroic couplets, heroic drama, heroic poems, heroic verse, mock heroic, heroic myth, heroic tale, heroic treatment, heroic ages, more...

Adjectives:
mock, onely, only, nassau, experimental, non, post, more, spiritual, first, tragic

Colors:
    crimson,     gold,     silver,     royal blue,     scarlet, more...



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