mythic

[ US /ˈmɪθɪk/ ]
[ UK /mˈɪθɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to or having the nature of myth
    a novel of almost mythic consequence
  2. based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity
    the fabulous unicorn
    mythical centaurs
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How To Use mythic In A Sentence

  • We have here no mythicized version of a real journey but a voyage of the imagination. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
  • Lawrence Pietroni has created two uniquely alluring charactersRuby and Isaand spins a story that feels mythical or folkloric, that is driven by a mystery, throbs with tension, and ends in conflagration. Ruby's Spoon: Summary and book reviews of Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni.
  • The griffin is also used by Saab, and other mythical beasts goaded into service on motor cars must include Alfa Romeo's serpent, Talbot's hunting dog and the Gilbern's Welsh dragon. Badge Engineering
  • Alternative ideology becomes a means of imbuing both self and community with an element of the mythic, and validating perceived limitations and shortcomings while sacralizing the mundane.
  • There's something compelling, even mythic, about a boy reaching out from beyond the grave to save the children of his family's sworn enemy.
  • Were it not so we would be the only Utopia on the globe -- a mythical Earthly Paradise, or a buried sea-city of Atlantis whose only discord is the music of its silver bells. The Conquest of National Fear
  • Which mythical couple is depicted in the picture? Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm fascinated by opal and its mythical reputation, so much so that my main character in my forthcoming novel, The Last Romanov, possesses an opal eye. Dora Levy Mossanen: Fires, Opals and the Romanovs
  • Legend by then had fructified Chapman (1774-1845), a footloose (and footsore) son of a Bunker Hill veteran, into a mythic, apple-spreading American nomad of the lonesome frontier. A Pro-Growth Strategy
  • To start with this is an unproven assertion based all too obviously on a cosy view of a mythical working class family from the Fifties.
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