Damocles
/ˈdaməkliːz
/A legendary courtier who extravagantly praised the happiness of Dionysius I, ruler of Syracuse. To show him how precarious this happiness was, Dionysius seated him at a banquet with a sword hung by a single hair over his head.
Phrases
sword of Damocles
- unimaginativeness
- unimagined
- unimodal
- unimodular
- unimolecular
- unimpaired
- unimpassioned
- unimpeachable
- unimpeachably
- unimpeded
- unimpededly
- unimportance
- unimportant
- unimposing
- unimposingly
- unimpressed
- unimpressionable
- unimpressive
- unimpressively
- unimpressiveness
- unimproved
- unincorporated
- uninfected
- uninflamed
- uninflected