The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mythologic \Myth`o*log"ic\, Mythological \Myth`o*log"ic*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; as, mythological creatures. -- Myth`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
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based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; mythical; fabulous.
Syn: fabulous, mythic, mythical.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Late Latin mythologicus, from Greek mythologikos "versed in legendary lore," from mythologia (see mythology). Related: Mythologically.
Wiktionary
a. 1 of, or relating to myths or mythology 2 legendary 3 (context colloquial English) imaginary, fabulous
WordNet
adj. based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn" [syn: fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic]
of or relating to mythology; dealt with in myths; "mythological stories"
Usage examples of "mythological".
Ignorant priests or astrologers administered drugs, concerning the properties of which they had no knowledge, to appease the wrath of mythological deities.
Probably, much public art was taken for granted: the mythological stories were well known, literacy was low, and so sculpture in particular would be a form of ever-present, pre-Herodotus history.
Lolita, the mythological nymphet, but also a portrayal of normal childhood behavior.
In the center of the square, a large fountain with the mythological creatures of Romaghin religion pouring water from pitchers over the heads of marble nymphets burbled gaily.
This took place first through identification with the figure of a ruler who could claim close connection and privileged access to the mythological originary powers.
I had enjoyed far more bizarre experiences, but nothing quite like holding a conversation about the socioeconomics of dream-visions on the rolling back of a gigantic pachyderm with a mythological hero who had enjoyed the privilege of seeing his own future epic and was now bound to live it.
It falls into the category of other mythological creatures like unicorns, hippogriffs, beatniks, leprechauns, elves and Governor George Wallace.
At the same time, mythological worldviews also took onin addition to their explanatory functionjustificatory functions.
And I call this problem critical because, when it is badly resolved, the result for the miseducated individual is what is known, in mythological terms, as a Waste Land situation.
Clementine possesses a manuscript with which he presented her, containing a number of mythological tales verified.
Magical, mythological in its scope, Fall on Your Knees transports us into a reality, at once horrifying and familiar, that we cannot bear to turn away from.
The resemblance in ceremonial between the observances established in honor of Osiris in Egypt, and those in honor of Bakchos in Greece, the mythological traditions of the two Gods, and the symbols used in the festivals of each, amply prove their identity.
And he greatly errs who imagines that, because the mythological legends and fables of antiquity are referable to and have their foundation in the phenomena of the Heavens, and all the Heathen Gods are but mere names given to the Sun, the Stars, the Planets, the Zodiacal Signs, the Elements, the Powers of Nature, and Universal Nature herself, therefore the first men worshipped the Stars, and whatever things, animate and inanimate, seemed to them to possess and exercise a power or influence, evident or imagined, over human fortunes and human destiny.
And I call this problem critical because, when it is badly resolved, the result for the miseducated individual is what is known, in mythological terms, as a Waste Land situation.
Asia, one of the Oceanides, is the wife of Prometheus--she was, according to other mythological interpretations, the same as Venus and Nature.