Homeric

[ hoh-mer-ik ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
2. of heroic dimensions; grand; imposing:

   Homeric feats of exploration.

Homeric

/ həʊˈmɛrɪk; həʊˈmɪərɪən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling Homer or his poems
2. imposing or heroic
3. of or relating to the archaic form of Greek used by Homer See epic

Derived Forms

• Hoˈmerically, adverb

Other Words From

• Ho·meri·cal·ly adverb
• non-Ho·meric adjective
• post-Ho·meric adjective
• pre-Ho·meric adjective
• pseudo-Ho·meric adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Homeric¹

First recorded in 1765–75; from Latin Homēricus, from Greek Homērikós; equivalent to Homer + -ic

Example Sentences

But like the Homeric Greek hero it was named after, the lander has not had an easy journey with a neat happy ending.

From New York Times

Rather than slotting in as a “horror” film, it can be categorized a little less neatly as a surreal three-hour Homeric odyssey about Jewish guilt, Oedipal angst and somebody named “Birthday Boy Stab Man.”

From Seattle Times

In its pulsating lights and screaming advertisements she saw profound poetry; as she put it to a reporter a decade later: “Times Square I knew had this great wisdom — it was Homeric.”

From New York Times

In Ari Aster’s new film “ Beau is Afraid,” Joaquin Phoenix plays an anxious man in a rotten world who goes on a wildly weird journey, both Homeric and Oedipal, to his mother’s home.

From Seattle Times

As the writer James Surowiecki put it, NFL Films “tried to simultaneously convey the gritty reality of the game and mythicize it in a Homeric fashion.”

From New York Times

Related Words

• classic
• humanistic