preheroic

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ heroic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊɪk

Adjective

preheroic (not comparable)

1. Before becoming a hero.
   • 2014, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm, page 99:

     This final trial which the hero must endure is motivated by the reappearance of the fraternal rivals who vexed the hero in his earlier, preheroic days.

2. Before heroism appeared as a literary motif.

   Antonym: postheroic