mythological
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6.8
- adjective
- /ˌmɪθəˈlɑdʒɪkəl/
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mitológico
- The tales of adventure and bravery are often based on mythological themes.
- mythological landscapes
- mythological figures
- mythological allusions
That's not only a huge mythological symbol, but that's Star Wars.
- That's not only a huge mythological symbol, but that's Star Wars.
- It has this kind of almost religious slash like mythological feeling to it.
- But because of our, you know, political and mythological delusions, we cannot trust the other humans.
- And they decided to lean straight into that and started to to create a very mythological view.
- But I think soul also is it's a word that comes from an archaic mythological register.
- And we get we get this overwhelming fervor around mythological world.
- Just magenta, green, brown, pink, yellow, red, Violet flying off the mythological canvas.
- When a narcissistic person is betrayed, it can feel like mythological Mount Olympus God's kind of vindictiveness.
- But I think in that situation, Hitler's charisma allowed him to take on a mythological, in the proper sense, archetypal.
- I mean, the last book that I wrote was Fire in the Dark and I, you know, I think that's kind of the mythological almost sequel to the way of Men.
Examples
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It was essentially a Native American mythological figure that was especially pronounced during the winter months.
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But mythological stories are mutable, changeable depending on who's telling them.
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So do we, when we talk about social justice today, where is our mythological hero?
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And so there is something mythological about their lives.
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Another contemporary president that I think has mythological status in this same way is Obama.
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But the female figure, often mythological, was also a favorite of nineteenth-century sculptors.
Academic text (1995) -
Minotaurs are cloven-hoofed creatures of mythological origin.
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Greek mythology features many mythological figures, such as Zeus and Athena.
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She dressed as a mythological goddess for the Halloween party.
Synonyms
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4.2
Very famous and admired, like a hero from old stories
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3.4
Made up in stories or in your mind, not real
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Found only in old stories and not real, like dragons or unicorns
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Famous in stories and legends that often have unreal details
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6.2
Something that seems to belong to old stories and heroes
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6.2
From old myths and stories about creatures and events that are not real
About traditional stories of gods or heroes
Compounds
How Mythic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mythological comes from myth, which means 'story', and the ending -logical, which is related to logic and means 'about reason or ideas'. So mythological means 'about old stories' and often suggests those stories are 'not factual'.