mythic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭth'ĭk
ipa: /ˈmɪθɪk/
rhymes: -ɪθɪk
Forms: form: more mythic
form: most mythic
Etymology: 1660s; from Latin mȳthicos or Ancient Greek μυθικός (muthikós); equivalent to myth + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1998, Chloé Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations, page 88:
text: Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for mythic heroes.
ref: 2005, Gerhard Hoffmann, From modernism to postmodernism: concepts and strategies, page 294:
text: The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.
ref: 2008, Peter Schmidt, Sitting in darkness: New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow, page 156:
text: 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.
ref: 2008, Laurence Jay Silberstein, Postzionism: a reader, page 351:
text: 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.
ref: 2010, Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society, page 161:
glosses: Mythical; existing in myth.
glosses: Very rare.
examples: text: Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.
ref: 2007, James Daniel Hardy, Baseball and the mythic moment: how we remember the national game, page 63:
text: 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.
ref: 2023 September 6, Luke Winkie, “Our Greatest Fast-Food Joint Is Costco”, in Slate, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2023:
synonyms: word: amazing
word: astounding
word: awesome
word: awesomesauce
word: based
word: bewildering
word: cool
word: dope
word: enchanting
word: excellent
word: extraordinary
word: far out
word: fire
word: goshwow
word: hellagood
word: impressive
word: incredible
word: inspiring
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: grand
word: grandiose
word: great
word: groovy
word: magnificent
word: major
word: majestic
word: marvellous
word: mystifying
word: mythic
word: neat
word: lit
word: outstanding
word: phenomenal
word: powerful
word: rad
word: selcouth
word: stupendous
word: stupefying
word: sublime
word: surpassing
word: terrific
word: tight
word: unbelievable
word: unreal
word: wicked
word: wonderful
word: wondrous
glosses: Amazing, epic, legendary.
Derived terms: antimythic
mythicism
mythicist
mythicization
mythicize
mythicness
nonmythic
psychomythic
semimythic
technomythic