Meaning

Mythical; existing in myth..

Definitions by Sense

1. Mythical; existing in myth.
2. Very rare.
3. (colloquial) Amazing, epic, legendary.

Example Sentences

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.

Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for mythic heroes.

The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.

The ways in which Eastern Europe has become a mythic part of the Jewish past and not an imagined mythic home in the future is central to understanding how American Jews see themselves at home in America.

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.

Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.

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.

Word Forms

• more mythic
• most mythic

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When Should You Use Mythic?

Use mythic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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