mythic
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]1660s; from Latin mȳthicos or Ancient Greek μυθικός (muthikós);[1] equivalent to myth + -ic.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mythic (comparative more mythic, superlative most mythic)
- Mythical; existing in myth.
- 1998, Chloé Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations, page 88:
- Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.
- 2005, Gerhard Hoffmann, From modernism to postmodernism: concepts and strategies, page 294:
- Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for mythic heroes.
- 2008, Peter Schmidt, Sitting in darkness: New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow, page 156:
- The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.
- 2008, Laurence Jay Silberstein, Postzionism: a reader, page 351:
- The ways in which Eastern Europe has become a mythic part of the Jewish past and not an imagined mythic home in the future is central to understanding how American Jews see themselves at home in America.
- 2010, Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society, page 161:
- By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.
- Very rare.
- (colloquial) Amazing, epic, legendary.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:awesome
- 2007, James Daniel Hardy, Baseball and the mythic moment: how we remember the national game, page 63:
- Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.
- 2023 September 6, Luke Winkie, “Our Greatest Fast-Food Joint Is Costco”, in Slate[2], archived from the original on 6 September 2023:
- There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “mythic, adj.”, in OED Online
[1], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-10-19.
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