mythic
/ˈmɪθɪk/
mythic adjective: mythical; existing in myth.
Adjective
mythic (comparative more mythic, superlative most mythic)
- Mythical; existing in myth.
- Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.1998, Chloé Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations, page 88
- Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for mythic heroes.2005, Gerhard Hoffmann, From modernism to postmodernism: concepts and strategies, page 294
- Very rare.
- Amazing, epic, legendary.
- Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.2007, James Daniel Hardy, Baseball and the mythic moment: how we remember the national game, page 63
- There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.2023 September 6, Luke Winkie, “Our Greatest Fast-Food Joint Is Costco”, in Slate, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2023
- Synonyms:
- amazing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, sensational, awesomesauce, based, beatific, bewildering
Examples of mythic in a sentence
- The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.2008, Peter Schmidt, Sitting in darkness: New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow, page 156:
- By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.2010, Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society, page 161:
Synonyms of mythic
- amazing
- astounding
- awe-inspiring
- awesome
- sensational
- awesomesauce
- based
- beatific
- bewildering
- blissful
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Forms of mythic
| comparative | more mythic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most mythic |
Origin of mythic
1660s; from Latin mȳthicus or Ancient Greek μυθικός (muthikós); equivalent to myth + -ic.
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Words that rhyme with mythic
Questions about mythic
- What does mythic mean?
- Mythic means mythical; existing in myth.
- How do you use mythic in a sentence?
- The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.
- What part of speech is mythic?
- Mythic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce mythic?
- Mythic is pronounced /ˈmɪθɪk/.
Words near mythic in the dictionary
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