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What is the adjective for myth?

What's the adjective for myth? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs mythicize, mythologize, mythicise, mythify, mythologise, mythopoeticize and mythopoetize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

mythopoetic
  1. Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.
  2. Being a creative interpretation.
  3. (mythology) Given the quality of a myth or a poem, used typically in opposition to a purely factual account.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. mythopoeic, mythopoetical
  5. Examples:
      6. “Perhaps the finest specimen of this hexametric renascence, however, was Charles Kingsley's mythopoetic epyllion Andromeda.”
      “The film is a superb mythopoetic epic, full of thunderous emotion and as visually awe-inducing as anything you've ever seen.”
      “Through experiences of community, rituals, and teachings, the mythopoetic men sought to overcome negative images of masculinity by creating new ones from myths and poems.”
mythological
  1. Of, or relating to myths or mythology.
  2. Legendary.
  3. (colloquial) Imaginary.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. mythical, legendary, mythic, fictitious, fabled, fabulous, imaginary, folkloric, fanciful, unreal, traditional, invented, imagined, chimerical, allegorical, visionary, storybook, storied, whimsical, heroic, nonexistent, fabricated, supposititious, epic, fantasy, fictive, created, false, pretended, untrue, symbolic, symbolical, mythologic, parabolic, made-up, fairy-tale, fictional, fantastic, fantastical, make-believe, apocryphal, proverbial, hypothetical, chimeric, pretend, fantasied, imaginal, phantom, illusory, ideal … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The majority recognizes the ankh as an Egyptian symbol of mythological power.”
      “Like Rembrandt, his contemporaries among the Restoration portraitists favoured fanciful mythological guises.”
      “By the early 1970s, wooden mythological figurines began to appear in his shop window between his kidneys and his chops.”
mythic
  1. Larger-than-life.
  2. Mythical; existing in myth.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. mythical, imaginary, fictitious, unreal, fanciful, fabulous, fictional, chimerical, invented, visionary, legendary, fabled, illusory, mythological, folkloric, fabricated, traditional, whimsical, fictive, storybook, allegorical, storied, nonexistent, supposititious, fantasy, untrue, false, epic, pretended, created, mythologic, made-up, fairy-tale, fantastic, imagined, fantastical, pretend, fantasied, phantom, chimeric, imaginal, ideal, phantasmal, phantasmic, notional, make-believe, apocryphal, delusive, hallucinatory, dreamlike … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “It is as if she is striving for a kind of mythic quality that does not always come off.”
      “When survivor stories are told, history moves from mythic quality to reality.”
      “He is eloquent at description, fastidious about mythic details, but reticent about his personal life.”
mythical
  1. Existing in myth.
  2. (by extension) Not real; false or fabricated.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. imaginary, fictitious, unreal, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fabulous, imagined, invented, chimerical, fantastical, visionary, chimeric, pretend, fantasied, ideal, imaginal, phantasmal, phantom, phantasmic, notional, fabricated, false, whimsical, untrue, nonexistent, fantasy, supposititious, pretended, created, made-up, make-believe, non-existent, mythic, illusory, legendary, fictive, dreamlike, concocted, hallucinatory, quixotic, apocryphal, delusive, suppositious, fancied, hypothetical, mythological, sham, dreamed-up, storybook … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “He told me some mythical story about the baby being brought here by a big bird from wherever he was.”
      “Cash told of the mythical George Washington Groundling, whose father had been a drunken old farmer whose forty acres were perpetually under mortgage.”
      “This idea is complicated by the presence of a mythical figure like Shoki, the demon queller.”
mythopoetical
  1. (mythology) Pertaining to the creation of myths; pertaining to mythopoiesis.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. mythopoeic, mythopoetic
mythopoeic
  1. Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. mythopoetic, mythopoetical
  3. Examples:
      4. “Just because she offers a mythopoeic rationale for her view doesn't make it less sexist or phobic.”
      “The approach is primarily mythopoeic, recognising that spiritual truths are better understood by means of allusion and symbol rather than through doctrine.”
      “These psychogenetic affinities and ambiguities between carnal desires, cannibalism, death, and rebirth form the core symbolism of the mythopoeic imagery.”
mythy
  1. (informal) Of or pertaining to myth; mythical.
mythographic
  1. Of or pertaining to mythography.
mythologizable
  1. Capable of being mythologized.
mythogenic
  1. (rare) Producing or capable of producing myths.
mythlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a myth.
mythologic
  1. (mythology) Of or pertaining to mythology
  2. Synonyms:
      3. imaginary, legendary, fabled, fabulous, folkloric, traditional, allegorical, fanciful, whimsical, mythic, fictitious, invented, chimerical, created, fabricated, false, fantasy, fictive, mythological, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, unreal, untrue, visionary, fairy-tale, made-up, mythical, storybook, epic, fictional, illusory, imagined, heroic, symbolic, symbolical, parabolic, fantastic, fantastical, pretend, fantasied, phantom, chimeric, imaginal, ideal, phantasmal, phantasmic, notional, make-believe … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Mrs. gerome, will you be so kind as to explain this mythologic design?”
      “It expresses all of the decorative imagination presented in religious or mythologic standards, commemorative episodes of our historu or simply an expression of our criativity.”
      “Mythologic Development sold the Montezuma-Cortés myth to an amusement park in Maryland, which used it for a roller coaster called the Aztecathon.”
mythemic
  1. Relating to mythemes.
mythless
  1. Without myths.
mythicized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of mythicize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deified, elevated, exalted, glorified, idealised, idealized, immortalised, immortalized, mythified, romanticised, romanticized … more
mythicizing
  1. present participle of mythicize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deifying, elevating, exalting, glorifying, idealising, idealizing, immortalising, immortalizing, mythifying, romanticising, romanticizing … more
mythologized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of mythologize
mythologizing
  1. present participle of mythologize
mythicised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of mythicise
mythicising
  1. present participle of mythicise
mythified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of mythify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. glorified, exalted, aggrandized, magnified, ennobled, revered, venerated, elevated, worshipped, worshiped, deified, dignified, adored, reverenced, honored, canonised, canonized, honoured, enshrined, enthroned, immortalised, immortalized, blest, blessed, haloed, raised, distinguished, sanctified, beatified, enskied, enskyed, illuminated, pedestalized, thanked, paid tribute to, paid homage to, gave thanks to, given thanks to, idealized, mythicized, romanticised, idealised, romanticized, extolled, lift, put on a pedestal, praised, lauded, celebrated, lionized … more
mythifying
  1. present participle of mythify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. glorifying, exalting, aggrandizing, magnifying, ennobling, revering, venerating, elevating, worshipping, worshiping, deifying, dignifying, adoring, reverencing, honoring, canonising, canonizing, honouring, enshrining, enthroning, immortalising, immortalizing, blessing, haloing, raising, distinguishing, sanctifying, beatifying, enskying, illuminating, pedestalizing, thanking, paying tribute to, paying homage to, giving thanks to, romanticizing, idealising, idealizing, mythicizing, romanticising, extolling, praising, lauding, celebrating, lionizing, acclaiming, idolizing, esteeming, commending, applauding … more
mythologised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of mythologise
mythologising
  1. present participle of mythologise
mythopoeticized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of mythopoeticize
mythopoeticizing
  1. present participle of mythopoeticize
mythopoetized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of mythopoetize
mythopoetizing
  1. present participle of mythopoetize
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