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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mythical
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
beast
▪ Some letters were pictures in themselves, containing miniature dragons, wyverns, centaurs and other mythical beasts.
▪ Legendary in concept, this depiction of Barbarossa at Gelnhausen portrays him in the company of mythical beasts.
creature
▪ Snow White is a classic tale, one that conjures up wonderful images of mythical creatures.
figure
▪ At this stage Provenzano had become a near-mythical figure.
▪ This stuff written about me has created a mythical figure in the public mind.
▪ The man was a mythical figure from the Doctor's past.
▪ How does a mythical figure ask a lady to dance?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Faulkner set his novels in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County.
▪ the mythical hero Hercules
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Col. 10 contains references to the mythical events recounted in the poem.
▪ Franklin draws much of her inspiration from early cultures and the symbolic and mythical imagery associated with them.
▪ Some letters were pictures in themselves, containing miniature dragons, wyverns, centaurs and other mythical beasts.
▪ Sometimes they can have a mythical dimension, images that shed a new light on traditions of wisdom or legend.
▪ The Arjun tank, named after a mythical Hindu warrior, would eventually compete with products in the Western arms market.
▪ The man was a mythical figure from the Doctor's past.
▪ The sheer size of the sanctuary represented Mount Meru, the mythical Olympus on which the gods were believed to live.
▪ This stuff written about me has created a mythical figure in the public mind.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mythical

Mythic \Myth"ic\, Mythical \Myth"ic*al\, a. [L. mythicus, Gr. ?. See Myth.] Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful; mythological. -- Myth"ic*al*ly, adv.

The mythic turf where danced the nymphs.
--Mrs. Browning.

Hengist and Horsa, Vortigern and Rowena, Arthur and Mordred, are mythical persons, whose very existence may be questioned.
--Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mythical

1670s; see mythic + -al (1).

Wiktionary
mythical

a. 1 Existing in myth. 2 (context by extension English) Not real; false or fabricated.

WordNet
mythical

adj. based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn" [syn: fabulous, mythic, mythologic, mythological]

Usage examples of "mythical".

Anyway, it seems that one of their innumerable holidays was about to conclude on Amado III when the climate controller monitoring equipment took itself off-line to go hunting for this mythical suprahuman intelligence.

Likewise, the Swords gradually disappeared, one by one, until finally, the last of the mythical blades slipped mysteriously into the annals of history, three thousand years ago.

It was a shapeless mythical monster that bore little relation to the actual Catholic doctrine of equivocation-- heroic if arguably ill-advised--which was intended to avoid the sin of lying when in dangerous conditions.

His days without a shirt in the sun of Bonheur had given him a definite demarcation line between torso and lower body, so that he seemed like some mythical creature, half lusty inhabitant of the heated day and half ethereal being of the moonlit night.

When Chia had been small, her mother had worn her hair in a long braid, its tip skewered with turquoise and abalone and carved bits of bone, like the magical tail of some mythical animal, swaying there for Chia to grab.

Moreover, whether the mythical events unfold in Central America, or in the Andes, or in Egypt, the upshot is also always pretty much the same: the civilizer is eventually plotted against and either driven out or killed.

She remained seated, lovely though not, the deglamorized daughter, mythical.

Few favored an outright duumvirate of twins, but several groups called for joint rule by annual alternation, citing various actual and mythical precedents, as a peaceful resolution of the question.

Indeed she looked like a statue come to life, the mythical Galatea brought to life by Pygmalion.

I told the landlord the mythical history of the abbe debt to me, and handed over the trunk, telling him that he had nothing to fear with regard to the bill, as I would take care that he should be well paid.

People had believed for centuries that mogras and varls were mythical monsters, from the old tales of wizards and sorcerers.

This false show of science, this camouflage of ignorance, this babble about ectoplasm and other mythical products of the psychic imagination was mere obscurantism, the bastard offspring of superstition and darkness.

Comments on the attributes of a mythical omnicompetent man, a usual character in short stories.

He briefly wondered if Toret or Sapphire would give a whit about the possibility of a five-hundred-year-old epistolary journal written by a nameless soldier in a mythical war.

Of course, if the story is an allegorical one, the fictional rendition of a mythical act by a mythical Jesus, the case goes out the window.