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[ UK /mˈɪθɪkə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪθəkəɫ, ˈmɪθɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity
    the fabulous unicorn
    mythical centaurs

How To Use mythical In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • The patch - painted to depict a North American Indian mythical half-eagle, half-hawk thunderbird - is hallowed ground.
  • There is still something almost mythical about a piece of metal that can inspire and assuage all the bitterness of political posturing and stray dog culls. Times, Sunday Times
  • mythical centaurs
  • If all those clever writers studied other writers at university, they should, in addition to producing fiction and poetry, be writing capacious essays for the mythical common reader.
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