mythical

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myth·i·cal /ˈmɪθɪkəl/ (also mythic) adjective [usually before noun]  1  RMexisting only in an ancient story 神话的，只存在于神话中的 a mythical creature like the Minotaur 像弥诺陶洛斯这类神话故事中的怪物2  REAL/NOT IMAGINARY#imagined or invented 想象中的，虚构的，非真实的 all these mythical job prospects he keeps talking about 他一直高谈阔论的这些虚幻的工作前景

Examples from the Corpus

mythical• Some letters were pictures in themselves, containing miniature dragons, wyverns, centaurs and other mythical beasts.• Sometimes they can have a mythical dimension, images that shed a new light on traditions of wisdom or legend.• Col. 10 contains references to the mythical events recounted in the poem.• The man was a mythical figure from the Doctor's past.• This stuff written about me has created a mythical figure in the public mind.• the mythical hero Hercules• The Arjun tank, named after a mythical Hindu warrior, would eventually compete with products in the Western arms market.• Franklin draws much of her inspiration from early cultures and the symbolic and mythical imagery associated with them.• The sheer size of the sanctuary represented Mount Meru, the mythical Olympus on which the gods were believed to live.• Faulkner set his novels in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County.

myth·i·cal adjectiveChineseSyllable  

story existing Corpus ancient only an in

mythical

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myth‧ic /ˈmɪθɪk/ (also mythical) adjective [usually before noun]
1. very great or famous:
    He became a mythic figure in publishing.
2. mythic proportions very great size or importance:
    a feat of mythic proportions

II

myth‧i‧cal /ˈmɪθɪkəl/ (also mythic) adjective [usually before noun]
1. existing only in an ancient story:
    a mythical creature like the Minotaur
2. imagined or invented:
    all these mythical job prospects he keeps talking about

myth·ic·alBrE /ˈmɪθɪkl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmɪθɪkl/ 🔊 adjective [usually before noun] (also less frequent myth·ic) existing only in ancient myths 神话的；神话里的 SYN legendary ◆mythical beasts/heroes 神话里的野兽／英雄 (also less frequent myth·ic) that does not exist or is not true 并不存在的；虚无的；不真实的 SYN fictitious ◆the mythical 'rich uncle' that he boasts about他所吹嘘而并不存在的 “富伯” = mythic (2)