mythical

English

Etymology

From Latin mȳthicos +‎ -al; by surface analysis, myth +‎ -ical.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭth'ĭkəl, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪθɪkəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adjective

mythical (comparative more mythical, superlative most mythical)

1. Existing in myth.

   He told a story about a mythical dragon.

   The city was compared to a mythical paradise.

   mythical creature

   mythical figure

   mythical hero

2. (by extension) Not real; false or fabricated.
3. Very rare.

Synonyms

• mythic
• legendary

Derived terms

• antimythical
• geomythical
• monomythical
• mythicality
• mythically
• mythicalness
• nonmythical
• postmythical
• premythical
• pseudomythical
• psychomythical
• semimythical
• unmythical

Translations

existing in myth

• Armenian: դիցաբանական (hy) (dicʻabanakan), առասպելական (hy) (aṙaspelakan)
• Belarusian: міфі́чны (mifíčny), міты́чны (mitýčny) (Taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: мити́чески (mitíčeski)
• Catalan: mític (ca)
• Czech: bájný (cs), mytický
• Dutch: mythisch (nl)
• Esperanto: mita
• Finnish: myyttinen (fi)
• French: mythique (fr)
• Galician: mítico m, mítica f
• Georgian: მითიური (mitiuri)
• German: mythisch (de)
• Greek: μυθικός (el) m (mythikós)

  Ancient Greek: μυθικός (muthikós)

• Italian: mitico (it), leggendario (it), favoloso (it)
• Japanese: 神話の (ja) (しんわの, shinwa no)
• Korean: 신화적 (sinhwajeok)
• Latin: fabularis (la), mythicus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mytisk

  Nynorsk: mytisk

• Polish: mityczny (pl)
• Portuguese: mítico (pt)
• Russian: мифи́ческий (ru) (mifíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: mȋtskī (sh)
• Slovene: mitski, mitološki (sl)
• Spanish: mítico (es)
• Swedish: mytisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: міфі́чний (mifíčnyj), міти́чний (mitýčnyj)

See also

• mythological