Byronic

American  

[bahy-ron-ik] / baɪˈrɒn ɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to Lord Byron.

2. possessing the characteristics of Byron or his poetry, especially romanticism, melancholy, and melodramatic energy.

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Other Word Forms

• Byronically adverb
• Byronism noun

Etymology

Origin of Byronic

First recorded in 1815–25; Byron + -ic

Example Sentences

In heroic, Byronic fashion, the show’s director and lead Fabian Hinrichs rescued the evening by jumping into the fray and assuming his absent co-star’s role, along with his own.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

Hannah Arendt, for example, decimated the archetype of grandiose, Byronic villainy by identifying the “banality of evil” in Adolf Eichmann.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2019

Early on, Brown affected a showy persona: long hair, blousy white shirts with billowing sleeves, leather vests, velvet pants tucked into knee-high boots, and Byronic capes.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

As writer Rebecca Traister pointed out on Twitter, a woman who abandoned her family for "self-discovery tours" would be regarded as a selfish monster, not a Byronic hero.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2019

And here is Mr. Rochester, waiting for her, in all his Byronic heroism.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour