pyrrhic

Adjective

• of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)
  • a Pyrrhic victory
    

• of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables
  • pyrrhic verses
    

• of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece
  • pyrrhic dance movements
    

Noun

• an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare

• a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables