homeric

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: Ho=mer=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

homeric, a. [L. Homericus, Gr. "Omhriko`s.].

 Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer.  [1913 Webster]

Homeric verse, hexameter verse; -- so called because used by Homer in his epics.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

homeric, adj.
1 of, or in the style of, Homer or the epic poems ascribed to him.
2 of Bronze Age Greece as described in these poems.
3 epic, large-scale, titanic (Homeric conflict).

Etymology

L Homericus f. Gk Homerikos f. Homeros Homer, traditional author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

THESAURUS

homeric

Alcaic, Anacreontic, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Castalian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, abysmal, astronomic, bardic, bucolic, colossal, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, elegiac, elephantine, enormous, epic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, huge, idyllic, immense, infinite, jumbo, mammoth, mighty, mock-heroic, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, narrative, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, prodigious, profound, rhapsodic, runic, sapphic, skaldic, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast