ritual dancing vs pyrrhic

pyrrhic vs ritual dancing

ritual dancing and pyrrhic both are nouns.

ritual dancing is not an adjective while pyrrhic is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ritual dancing	Yes	No	No	No
pyrrhic	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, pyrrhic is a hyponym of ritual dancing; that is, pyrrhic is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ritual dancing:

ritual dancing: a dance that is part of a religious ritual
pyrrhic: an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare

Other hyponyms of ritual dancing include apache devil dance, dance of death, danse macabre, ghost dance, rain dance, snake dance, sun dance, war dance.

ritual dancing (noun)	pyrrhic (noun)
a dance that is part of a religious ritual	an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
	a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables

ritual dancing (adjective)	pyrrhic (adjective)
	of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)
	of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables
	of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece

Difference between ritual dancing and pyrrhic

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