Definition of mythical in English:

mythical

adjective ˈmɪθɪkəlˈmɪθək(ə)l

1Occurring in or characteristic of myths or folk tales.
one of Denmark's greatest mythical heroes
Example sentencesExamples
- Even the country's national symbol - the dragon - is a mythical beast.
- Only subsequently did it go back to Europa, the mythical princess abducted by Zeus.
- Incidentally, the ancients had another cause for being grateful to this mythical hero.
- Their entire surfaces were carved with mythical beasts and classic Viking patterns.
- I would search for other mythical beasts like him.
- What myth is being alluded to and what is the name of the mythical horse so raised?
- I had always thought that the Centaur was a mythical beast, but obviously the Greek aristocracy know where to find them.
- That night I found myself staring at a carved masterpiece that decorated the ceiling, with snarling beasts and mythical creatures.
- Ivory statues of mythical beasts with emerald eyes lined the way.
- I recognize that another current movie has done well by inventing a language for mythical beings, but is it really necessary that the vampires talk in vampirish?
- In China, the unicorn is a symbol of perfect goodness - a mythical beast with a lifespan of a thousand years.
- The school was named after a mythical creature in the hope it would appeal to youngsters at the school.
- All sorts of things have inspired names for performance cars over the years, from animals and winds to exotic locations, mythical beasts and motor racing personalities.
- One corner had the Chinese symbol for fire, the other something that looked like part of a mythical beast.
- She was teased up to the age of 7 because she used to believe in monsters and mythical beasts.
- Yet another use of a grotesque image can be seen in the carvings of two mythical beasts that perch on top of the great medieval cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France.
- The Gorgon was a mythical creature who portrayed the darkest aspects of the feminine: revenge, hatred, lust for power, bitterness and self hatred.
- Like the mythical phoenix, which arose in its own ashes, the ram was chosen as a natural symbol of resurrection because of its ability, when shorn, to replenish its stock of wool.
- They represented deities, mythical creatures, imaginary beasts, and recognizable fauna imbued with symbolic meanings.
- According to one legend, a mythical hero named Bochica introduced culture and civilization to the people living around Bogotá.
Synonyms
legendary, mythological, fabled, fabulous, folkloric, fairy-tale, storybook, chimerical
fantastical, imaginary, imagined, fictitious
allegorical, symbolic, symbolical, parabolic
1. 1.1 Idealized, especially with reference to the past.
  a mythical age of contentment and social order
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is burdensome if the twenty-first century primitive artist is supposed to have escaped the march of history to help the rest of us treasure some mythical past.
  All going well, it could be the perfect antidote to those who are insisting that we return to some mythical, homogenised past.
  We cannot go back to a mythical golden age of a white Christian society ruled by British law and traditions.
  This knee-jerk nostalgia for nursing's mythical golden age simply will not do.
  He spent the rest of his life creating a mythical past to fill the void.
  It's a story that occurs in what many of us take to be the mythical past - so what does it have to tell us today?
  Most anthropologists would recognize much writing about community in public health as idealized if not mythical.
  He sees too many journalists as focused on a mythical past when things were better, at least in hindsight.
  Advocates of this doctrine did not propose a ‘return’ to some mythical American past.
  Instead he recalls a mythical past of gentlemanly villains with hearts of gold.
  The anti-capitalism of the protesters on the streets of Seattle represented not the old dream of human liberation, but a fear of the future and a determination to flee back into a mythical past.
  We are not going to turn back the clock to a, probably mythical, Golden Age.
  The next day after the demonstration class, we discussed his modern interpretation of the mythical past and of a cult figure.
  They crave books which confirm mythical notions of a magnificent past, in which villains and heroes are clearly drawn in black and white.
  Contemporary Dutch teams should be judged on their own merits and not allowed to bask in the reflected glory of a mythical past.
  We know that we cannot return to some mythical time in the past when nature was in balance, and static.
  His protest involves, however, no retreat into a mythical golden age and sternly rejects any hints of aestheticism.
  To say that, I recognise, is to risk appearing as a reactionary, someone constantly harking back to a mythical golden age.
  Television thus becomes a cultural and historical watershed allowing people to create a mythical past.
  Many call for a retreat to a mythical past when, they claim, national governments regulated and controlled the economy in the interests of all.
  Synonyms
  fabled, heroic, ancient, traditional, fairy-tale, storybook, romantic, mythological
2. 1.2 Fictitious.
  a mythical customer whose name appears in brochures promoting the bank's services
  Example sentencesExamples
  And rightly have they named the experience Xanadu, the mythical land where the wildest fantasy comes true.
  A couple of years ago the Disney Channel invented this on-air mythical place called Zoog Disney.
  The event might be entirely mythical but if the myth expresses a true relationship, then for us it is as valuable as a factual incident.
  Whatever happened to the days when TV shows used mythical place names?
  The heroes are mythical figures, but they are also real.
  Happily, we don't have to invent this mythical band as the Sadies fit the bill pretty neatly.
  The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village.
  These stories are inventive and mythical, but never frightening - in fact, it is their slightly humorous quality that lends them much of their charm.
  That is a mythical invention of judges, who were forced to invent something to cope with some political compromises put through by David Lange.
  Drug advertising uses strong imagery to fabricate mythical associations between medical conditions and branded drugs.
  The mythical plumber has been named Piotr and is very dangerous.
  Synonyms
  imaginary, fictitious, make-believe, fantasy, fanciful, invented, fabricated, made-up, unreal, untrue, non-existent
  informal pretend

Derivatives

mythically

adverb ˈmɪθɪk(ə)liˈmɪθək(ə)li

So, to recognize that we are all capable of living mythically allows people involved in activism to be able to reach out to people and get them involved.
Example sentencesExamples
- This has served mythically as a metaphor for the birth of the continent of Europe.
- Most verse (especially well-made free verse), given the tension between the line and the sentence, has about it a centrifugal force of push and pull that mythically enacts the gravity of an eternal return.
- Definitional whirlpools and methodological monsters have realistically, not mythically, engulfed many reviewers and researchers.
- The past as Joyce envisaged it can be evoked as a persistent and even powerful residue in what is now present; but it will not be idealized or mythically glamorized.

Definition of mythical in US English:

mythical

adjectiveˈmɪθək(ə)lˈmiTHək(ə)l

1Occurring in or characteristic of myths or folk tales.
one of Denmark's greatest mythical heroes
Example sentencesExamples
- Their entire surfaces were carved with mythical beasts and classic Viking patterns.
- What myth is being alluded to and what is the name of the mythical horse so raised?
- The Gorgon was a mythical creature who portrayed the darkest aspects of the feminine: revenge, hatred, lust for power, bitterness and self hatred.
- They represented deities, mythical creatures, imaginary beasts, and recognizable fauna imbued with symbolic meanings.
- In China, the unicorn is a symbol of perfect goodness - a mythical beast with a lifespan of a thousand years.
- Even the country's national symbol - the dragon - is a mythical beast.
- The school was named after a mythical creature in the hope it would appeal to youngsters at the school.
- Yet another use of a grotesque image can be seen in the carvings of two mythical beasts that perch on top of the great medieval cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France.
- Like the mythical phoenix, which arose in its own ashes, the ram was chosen as a natural symbol of resurrection because of its ability, when shorn, to replenish its stock of wool.
- Ivory statues of mythical beasts with emerald eyes lined the way.
- One corner had the Chinese symbol for fire, the other something that looked like part of a mythical beast.
- Only subsequently did it go back to Europa, the mythical princess abducted by Zeus.
- All sorts of things have inspired names for performance cars over the years, from animals and winds to exotic locations, mythical beasts and motor racing personalities.
- That night I found myself staring at a carved masterpiece that decorated the ceiling, with snarling beasts and mythical creatures.
- According to one legend, a mythical hero named Bochica introduced culture and civilization to the people living around Bogotá.
- I had always thought that the Centaur was a mythical beast, but obviously the Greek aristocracy know where to find them.
- Incidentally, the ancients had another cause for being grateful to this mythical hero.
- She was teased up to the age of 7 because she used to believe in monsters and mythical beasts.
- I would search for other mythical beasts like him.
- I recognize that another current movie has done well by inventing a language for mythical beings, but is it really necessary that the vampires talk in vampirish?
Synonyms
legendary, mythological, fabled, fabulous, folkloric, fairy-tale, storybook, chimerical
1. 1.1 Idealized, especially with reference to the past.
  a mythical age of contentment and social order
  Example sentencesExamples
  Television thus becomes a cultural and historical watershed allowing people to create a mythical past.
  Contemporary Dutch teams should be judged on their own merits and not allowed to bask in the reflected glory of a mythical past.
  They crave books which confirm mythical notions of a magnificent past, in which villains and heroes are clearly drawn in black and white.
  His protest involves, however, no retreat into a mythical golden age and sternly rejects any hints of aestheticism.
  Many call for a retreat to a mythical past when, they claim, national governments regulated and controlled the economy in the interests of all.
  It is burdensome if the twenty-first century primitive artist is supposed to have escaped the march of history to help the rest of us treasure some mythical past.
  To say that, I recognise, is to risk appearing as a reactionary, someone constantly harking back to a mythical golden age.
  He spent the rest of his life creating a mythical past to fill the void.
  He sees too many journalists as focused on a mythical past when things were better, at least in hindsight.
  We are not going to turn back the clock to a, probably mythical, Golden Age.
  The next day after the demonstration class, we discussed his modern interpretation of the mythical past and of a cult figure.
  We know that we cannot return to some mythical time in the past when nature was in balance, and static.
  The anti-capitalism of the protesters on the streets of Seattle represented not the old dream of human liberation, but a fear of the future and a determination to flee back into a mythical past.
  This knee-jerk nostalgia for nursing's mythical golden age simply will not do.
  All going well, it could be the perfect antidote to those who are insisting that we return to some mythical, homogenised past.
  It's a story that occurs in what many of us take to be the mythical past - so what does it have to tell us today?
  We cannot go back to a mythical golden age of a white Christian society ruled by British law and traditions.
  Most anthropologists would recognize much writing about community in public health as idealized if not mythical.
  Instead he recalls a mythical past of gentlemanly villains with hearts of gold.
  Advocates of this doctrine did not propose a ‘return’ to some mythical American past.
  Synonyms
  fabled, heroic, ancient, traditional, fairy-tale, storybook, romantic, mythological
2. 1.2 Fictitious.
  a mythical customer whose name appears in brochures
  Example sentencesExamples
  And rightly have they named the experience Xanadu, the mythical land where the wildest fantasy comes true.
  The heroes are mythical figures, but they are also real.
  That is a mythical invention of judges, who were forced to invent something to cope with some political compromises put through by David Lange.
  Whatever happened to the days when TV shows used mythical place names?
  Happily, we don't have to invent this mythical band as the Sadies fit the bill pretty neatly.
  The event might be entirely mythical but if the myth expresses a true relationship, then for us it is as valuable as a factual incident.
  A couple of years ago the Disney Channel invented this on-air mythical place called Zoog Disney.
  The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village.
  The mythical plumber has been named Piotr and is very dangerous.
  Drug advertising uses strong imagery to fabricate mythical associations between medical conditions and branded drugs.
  These stories are inventive and mythical, but never frightening - in fact, it is their slightly humorous quality that lends them much of their charm.
  Synonyms
  imaginary, fictitious, make-believe, fantasy, fanciful, invented, fabricated, made-up, unreal, untrue, non-existent

单词	mythical
释义	Definition of mythical in English: mythical adjective ˈmɪθɪkəlˈmɪθək(ə)l 1Occurring in or characteristic of myths or folk tales. one of Denmark's greatest mythical heroes Example sentencesExamples Even the country's national symbol - the dragon - is a mythical beast. Only subsequently did it go back to Europa, the mythical princess abducted by Zeus. Incidentally, the ancients had another cause for being grateful to this mythical hero. Their entire surfaces were carved with mythical beasts and classic Viking patterns. I would search for other mythical beasts like him. What myth is being alluded to and what is the name of the mythical horse so raised? I had always thought that the Centaur was a mythical beast, but obviously the Greek aristocracy know where to find them. That night I found myself staring at a carved masterpiece that decorated the ceiling, with snarling beasts and mythical creatures. Ivory statues of mythical beasts with emerald eyes lined the way. I recognize that another current movie has done well by inventing a language for mythical beings, but is it really necessary that the vampires talk in vampirish? In China, the unicorn is a symbol of perfect goodness - a mythical beast with a lifespan of a thousand years. The school was named after a mythical creature in the hope it would appeal to youngsters at the school. All sorts of things have inspired names for performance cars over the years, from animals and winds to exotic locations, mythical beasts and motor racing personalities. One corner had the Chinese symbol for fire, the other something that looked like part of a mythical beast. She was teased up to the age of 7 because she used to believe in monsters and mythical beasts. Yet another use of a grotesque image can be seen in the carvings of two mythical beasts that perch on top of the great medieval cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France. The Gorgon was a mythical creature who portrayed the darkest aspects of the feminine: revenge, hatred, lust for power, bitterness and self hatred. Like the mythical phoenix, which arose in its own ashes, the ram was chosen as a natural symbol of resurrection because of its ability, when shorn, to replenish its stock of wool. They represented deities, mythical creatures, imaginary beasts, and recognizable fauna imbued with symbolic meanings. According to one legend, a mythical hero named Bochica introduced culture and civilization to the people living around Bogotá. Synonyms legendary, mythological, fabled, fabulous, folkloric, fairy-tale, storybook, chimerical fantastical, imaginary, imagined, fictitious allegorical, symbolic, symbolical, parabolic 1.1 Idealized, especially with reference to the past. a mythical age of contentment and social order Example sentencesExamples It is burdensome if the twenty-first century primitive artist is supposed to have escaped the march of history to help the rest of us treasure some mythical past. All going well, it could be the perfect antidote to those who are insisting that we return to some mythical, homogenised past. We cannot go back to a mythical golden age of a white Christian society ruled by British law and traditions. This knee-jerk nostalgia for nursing's mythical golden age simply will not do. He spent the rest of his life creating a mythical past to fill the void. It's a story that occurs in what many of us take to be the mythical past - so what does it have to tell us today? Most anthropologists would recognize much writing about community in public health as idealized if not mythical. He sees too many journalists as focused on a mythical past when things were better, at least in hindsight. Advocates of this doctrine did not propose a ‘return’ to some mythical American past. Instead he recalls a mythical past of gentlemanly villains with hearts of gold. The anti-capitalism of the protesters on the streets of Seattle represented not the old dream of human liberation, but a fear of the future and a determination to flee back into a mythical past. We are not going to turn back the clock to a, probably mythical, Golden Age. The next day after the demonstration class, we discussed his modern interpretation of the mythical past and of a cult figure. They crave books which confirm mythical notions of a magnificent past, in which villains and heroes are clearly drawn in black and white. Contemporary Dutch teams should be judged on their own merits and not allowed to bask in the reflected glory of a mythical past. We know that we cannot return to some mythical time in the past when nature was in balance, and static. His protest involves, however, no retreat into a mythical golden age and sternly rejects any hints of aestheticism. To say that, I recognise, is to risk appearing as a reactionary, someone constantly harking back to a mythical golden age. Television thus becomes a cultural and historical watershed allowing people to create a mythical past. Many call for a retreat to a mythical past when, they claim, national governments regulated and controlled the economy in the interests of all. Synonyms fabled, heroic, ancient, traditional, fairy-tale, storybook, romantic, mythological 1.2 Fictitious. a mythical customer whose name appears in brochures promoting the bank's services Example sentencesExamples And rightly have they named the experience Xanadu, the mythical land where the wildest fantasy comes true. A couple of years ago the Disney Channel invented this on-air mythical place called Zoog Disney. The event might be entirely mythical but if the myth expresses a true relationship, then for us it is as valuable as a factual incident. Whatever happened to the days when TV shows used mythical place names? The heroes are mythical figures, but they are also real. Happily, we don't have to invent this mythical band as the Sadies fit the bill pretty neatly. The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village. These stories are inventive and mythical, but never frightening - in fact, it is their slightly humorous quality that lends them much of their charm. That is a mythical invention of judges, who were forced to invent something to cope with some political compromises put through by David Lange. Drug advertising uses strong imagery to fabricate mythical associations between medical conditions and branded drugs. The mythical plumber has been named Piotr and is very dangerous. Synonyms imaginary, fictitious, make-believe, fantasy, fanciful, invented, fabricated, made-up, unreal, untrue, non-existent informal pretend Derivatives mythically adverb ˈmɪθɪk(ə)liˈmɪθək(ə)li So, to recognize that we are all capable of living mythically allows people involved in activism to be able to reach out to people and get them involved. Example sentencesExamples This has served mythically as a metaphor for the birth of the continent of Europe. Most verse (especially well-made free verse), given the tension between the line and the sentence, has about it a centrifugal force of push and pull that mythically enacts the gravity of an eternal return. Definitional whirlpools and methodological monsters have realistically, not mythically, engulfed many reviewers and researchers. The past as Joyce envisaged it can be evoked as a persistent and even powerful residue in what is now present; but it will not be idealized or mythically glamorized. Definition of mythical in US English: mythical adjectiveˈmɪθək(ə)lˈmiTHək(ə)l 1Occurring in or characteristic of myths or folk tales. one of Denmark's greatest mythical heroes Example sentencesExamples Their entire surfaces were carved with mythical beasts and classic Viking patterns. What myth is being alluded to and what is the name of the mythical horse so raised? The Gorgon was a mythical creature who portrayed the darkest aspects of the feminine: revenge, hatred, lust for power, bitterness and self hatred. They represented deities, mythical creatures, imaginary beasts, and recognizable fauna imbued with symbolic meanings. In China, the unicorn is a symbol of perfect goodness - a mythical beast with a lifespan of a thousand years. Even the country's national symbol - the dragon - is a mythical beast. The school was named after a mythical creature in the hope it would appeal to youngsters at the school. Yet another use of a grotesque image can be seen in the carvings of two mythical beasts that perch on top of the great medieval cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France. Like the mythical phoenix, which arose in its own ashes, the ram was chosen as a natural symbol of resurrection because of its ability, when shorn, to replenish its stock of wool. Ivory statues of mythical beasts with emerald eyes lined the way. One corner had the Chinese symbol for fire, the other something that looked like part of a mythical beast. Only subsequently did it go back to Europa, the mythical princess abducted by Zeus. All sorts of things have inspired names for performance cars over the years, from animals and winds to exotic locations, mythical beasts and motor racing personalities. That night I found myself staring at a carved masterpiece that decorated the ceiling, with snarling beasts and mythical creatures. According to one legend, a mythical hero named Bochica introduced culture and civilization to the people living around Bogotá. I had always thought that the Centaur was a mythical beast, but obviously the Greek aristocracy know where to find them. Incidentally, the ancients had another cause for being grateful to this mythical hero. She was teased up to the age of 7 because she used to believe in monsters and mythical beasts. I would search for other mythical beasts like him. I recognize that another current movie has done well by inventing a language for mythical beings, but is it really necessary that the vampires talk in vampirish? Synonyms legendary, mythological, fabled, fabulous, folkloric, fairy-tale, storybook, chimerical 1.1 Idealized, especially with reference to the past. a mythical age of contentment and social order Example sentencesExamples Television thus becomes a cultural and historical watershed allowing people to create a mythical past. Contemporary Dutch teams should be judged on their own merits and not allowed to bask in the reflected glory of a mythical past. They crave books which confirm mythical notions of a magnificent past, in which villains and heroes are clearly drawn in black and white. His protest involves, however, no retreat into a mythical golden age and sternly rejects any hints of aestheticism. Many call for a retreat to a mythical past when, they claim, national governments regulated and controlled the economy in the interests of all. It is burdensome if the twenty-first century primitive artist is supposed to have escaped the march of history to help the rest of us treasure some mythical past. To say that, I recognise, is to risk appearing as a reactionary, someone constantly harking back to a mythical golden age. He spent the rest of his life creating a mythical past to fill the void. He sees too many journalists as focused on a mythical past when things were better, at least in hindsight. We are not going to turn back the clock to a, probably mythical, Golden Age. The next day after the demonstration class, we discussed his modern interpretation of the mythical past and of a cult figure. We know that we cannot return to some mythical time in the past when nature was in balance, and static. The anti-capitalism of the protesters on the streets of Seattle represented not the old dream of human liberation, but a fear of the future and a determination to flee back into a mythical past. This knee-jerk nostalgia for nursing's mythical golden age simply will not do. All going well, it could be the perfect antidote to those who are insisting that we return to some mythical, homogenised past. It's a story that occurs in what many of us take to be the mythical past - so what does it have to tell us today? We cannot go back to a mythical golden age of a white Christian society ruled by British law and traditions. Most anthropologists would recognize much writing about community in public health as idealized if not mythical. Instead he recalls a mythical past of gentlemanly villains with hearts of gold. Advocates of this doctrine did not propose a ‘return’ to some mythical American past. Synonyms fabled, heroic, ancient, traditional, fairy-tale, storybook, romantic, mythological 1.2 Fictitious. a mythical customer whose name appears in brochures Example sentencesExamples And rightly have they named the experience Xanadu, the mythical land where the wildest fantasy comes true. The heroes are mythical figures, but they are also real. That is a mythical invention of judges, who were forced to invent something to cope with some political compromises put through by David Lange. Whatever happened to the days when TV shows used mythical place names? Happily, we don't have to invent this mythical band as the Sadies fit the bill pretty neatly. The event might be entirely mythical but if the myth expresses a true relationship, then for us it is as valuable as a factual incident. A couple of years ago the Disney Channel invented this on-air mythical place called Zoog Disney. The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village. The mythical plumber has been named Piotr and is very dangerous. Drug advertising uses strong imagery to fabricate mythical associations between medical conditions and branded drugs. These stories are inventive and mythical, but never frightening - in fact, it is their slightly humorous quality that lends them much of their charm. Synonyms imaginary, fictitious, make-believe, fantasy, fanciful, invented, fabricated, made-up, unreal, untrue, non-existent
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