Byronic

adjective

By·​ron·​ic bī-ˈrä-nik 

: of, relating to, or suggestive of Lord Byron or his writings

What he lacked in the Byronic charisma of his brother, he seemed to gain in nobility …

—Zadie Smith

especially : romantic sense 4b

His imagination … inspired in him a desire for the Byronic attitude; and he was torn between a morbid self-consciousness and a conviction that he owed it to himself to be gallant.

—William Somerset Maugham

Word History

First Known Use

1823, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Byronic

• atonic
• benthonic
• bionic
• bosonic
• bubonic
• canonic
• carbonic
• cyclonic
• demonic
• dystonic
• hadronic
• harmonic