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mythmaker

mythmaker

1 7.5
A person or organization who makes and spreads stories people believe are true
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪθˌmeɪkər/
translation icon : creador de mitos
  • The marketing team acted as mythmakers, crafting a compelling narrative around the brand.

Examples

  • These scenes were too bracingly human for the mythmaker who had wrapped her husband's presidency in the ribbons of Camelot.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Blending Western and Near Eastern mythology and using various masks and poetic techniques to explore new themes and subject matter in a new language, alBayati becomes the mythmaker and poet par excellence we see in his collection Bustan Aisha.

    Academic text (2018)
  • And if you're a mythmaker, what better subject to make a myth about than yourself?

  • One must triumph: the realist or the mythmaker.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Mythmakers: Compassion, One of the Things That Makes Us Human

    Blog text (5)
  • This is just as true for the new mythmakers as for the old.

    Academic text (1992)
  • He was a storyteller and a mythmaker.

  • One myth is shared by the old mythmakers and the new—a monolithic view of sub-Saharan Africa that survives all evidence of its immense diversity.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The ancient Greeks were incredible mythmakers, creating stories that explained natural phenomena.

  • As a talented novelist, she has become a notable mythmaker in contemporary literature.

Synonyms

storyteller
vsmythmaker
  • Offensive
4 6.4

A person who makes up lies to trick people

often works to spread lasting public beliefs rather than only deceiving
fabulist
vsmythmaker
1 9.5

A person who tells made-up or imaginary stories, often as if they were true

leans toward imaginative storytelling rather than promoting widely held beliefs
fabricator
vsmythmaker
  • Offensive
1 7.1

A person who makes up stories to trick people

focuses on promoting widely believed narratives not just on telling lies
fictionist
vsmythmaker
8.6

A person who makes up false or exaggerated stories and says they are true

creates or promotes widely believed ideas rather than only telling tales
maker-upper
vsmythmaker
  • Offensive
9.7

A person who tells lies to trick or amuse people

aims to create widely believed ideas beyond mere entertainment

Antonyms

1 3.8

A person who never lies, even when it is hard

How Influential

cult
101 5.8
propagandist
  • Literature
15 7.8
ideologue
33 9.0
publicist
69 5.0
mythmaker
1 7.5
storyteller
64 2.3
writer
1.0

Surface Forms

mythmaker singular
mythmakers plural

Morphology

mythmaker = myth + maker (transparent) = myth + maker

A straightforward compound of 'myth' + 'maker' meaning a person or organization that produces or promotes myths; components are common and semantically productive.

Etymology

Mythmaker is made of myth ('story') and maker ('one who makes'). A mythmaker creates or spreads stories or ideas that change what people believe, so the name fits someone who shapes public belief.