Heroics

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  heroics
       n : ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or hammy
           conduct; "heroics are for those epic films they make in
           Hollywood"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "heroics":
     bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio,
     braggartism, bragging, brashness, brass, bravado, brazen boldness,
     cheek, chutzpah, conceit, fanfaronade, gall, gasconade, gasconism,
     hubris, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion,
     injudiciousness, insolence, jactation, jactitation, overboldness,
     overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness,
     rashness, rodomontade, side, swagger, temerariousness, temerity,
     unchariness, unwariness, vanity, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting