Definition of mythic in English:

mythic

adjective ˈmɪθɪkˈmɪθɪk

1Mythical.
mythic creatures
a mythic land of plenty
一个虚构的富裕之邦。
Example sentencesExamples
- But Greek metaphysics, through its ‘binary’ opposition to myth, carried its mythic antagonist with it as its doppelgänger.
- Pinsky uses mythic language to make us see sacred texts newly, to question their implications.
- Ancestors and parents inhabit Paul's anecdotal poems, which also pay close attention to local creatures, mythic and otherwise.
- The fluid interplay of languages in Britain during the Middle Ages is illustrated by three events in the 12c, all associated with the cycle of mythic and legendary material known as the Matter of Britain.
- It is here that Walker's text swerves most radically from the myth of Philomela and from the mythic paradigm.
- The world they frequent is loosely based on Greek mythology, with gods, demigods, and mythic creatures in abundance.
- Daly has an intuitive feel for the mythic nature of cinema, and knows that myth and authenticity are not mutually exclusive.
- It is the task of art, I believe, to establish connection again with the mythic realm, to help heal the rift between myth and religion, and to open a door to the deeper meanings contained within us.
- Such recognition may involve confronting their own deaths or entering into contact with ghosts, mythic and otherworldly creatures.
- If a painting had depth it meant that it still embodied all the mythic material that was important to the Aborigines themselves.
- Clearly, speedy mercury was just the stuff to power these mythic ancient craft!
- The Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, was a mythic creature well-known in the Pacific Northwest - twelve feet tall, or so they say.
- Formulated as much from myth as from historical occurrences, mythic history both produces and reflects collective historical imagination.
- This essay examines Nemesis' mythic origin and relates her special impetus to the historical morphology
- I'd like to be able to counter some of the most pernicious half- and un-truths, and need to do some of it on the same battle-ground of non-rational language and mythic references.
- Not only myths, but the nature of that which makes stories mythic changes once stories are technologically reproducible and we begin to attribute authorship.
- In the earlier days of human society natural phenomena were accorded great significance and often described in mythic terms.
- There is an extensive Spanish language historiography examining the department's mythic past, with a corresponding literature in English.
- In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, Berbers create a mythic monstrous figure called the Bilmawn, a man dressed in the skins of a sheep slaughtered on the first day of the Feast of the Sacrifice.
- And how are we supposed to lure this mythic creature?
- So Harris argues, ‘Given the power of our technology… we have simply lost the right to our myths and to our mythic identities.’
- Both had the same attitude to language - MacRae wanted to retain something of a mythic feel; Armitage described the result as ‘somewhere between rhetoric and conversation’.
- The Grey Fox imagines a mythic past for the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia out of a brief moment in actual history.
- This set a mythic food-producing vessel at the centre of a Celtic agricultural myth (of the type Frazer had created).
- The stories of coastal Aboriginal people are tales of sea creatures and their journeyings, stories that connect past mythic events with present coastal land and reefscapes.
- Maybe he is a brother in mind to fellow Frenchman Albert Camus, who imagined Sysiphos, the mythic figure trying to roll a heavy stone uphill and destined to forever fail, as a happy person.
- It was over the maelstrom of the First World War trenches that these winged men became the mythic symbols of a new tomorrow.
- So it acquires a mythic status based on inference and speculation, rather than actual content.
- When her interview subjects spoke of marriage as an institution, they were more likely to use the language of mythic love.
- All the mythic versions of women, from the myth of the redeeming purity of the virgin to that of the healing, reconciling mother, are consolatory nonsenses; and consolatory nonsense seems to me a fair definition of myth, anyway.
- Meanwhile, I had been working on my own theology, inventing deities to represent the most profound forces at work in my life, and giving them symbolic correspondences and mythic imagery.
- Contemporary belief stories and older myths intermingle to create the rich mythic tapestry that forms the backdrop to vernacular and alternative religiosity there.
- It is a fantasy world with mythic beasts and people wearing Victorian clothes, and speaking in the appropriate Victorian tongue - rather like the history of the tube itself.
Synonyms
mythical, legendary, mythological, fabled, folkloric, fairy-tale, heroic, traditional
1. 1.1 Exaggerated or idealized.
  夸张的；被理想化的；被神话化了的
  Scott of the Antarctic was a national hero of mythic proportions
  南极洲探险家斯科特是一个被理想化了的民族英雄。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was a medieval scene of mythic proportions involving open flames, a large pot of super-heated oil and a turkey hanging from a metal hook.
  From that point forward, Marley would become not only a huge superstar but, really, an icon of mythic proportions.
  It is this defensive behavior that Hollywood has raised to mythic proportions.
  When Scotland's future looked most grim, a hero arose of mythic proportions.
  After a century of suspicion, ridicule, character assassination and scientific debunking, Freud has not only survived, but grown into a figure of mythic proportions.
  His reputation attained mythic proportions; but resentment grew as Ferrari began to dominate an inherently imbalanced sport.
  This was becoming a search of mythic proportions for a Holy Grail.
  In fact, he has been telling tall tales for a long time to his children, inflating events in his own life to mythic proportions.
  For an experience or an epoch to take on mythic proportions, it usually needs the reverberating perspective of cherished memories that we may have about departed possibilities.
  It was an enormous physical structure, with a base measuring 676 square feet, but more than anything else its proportions were mythic.
  Already a superstar in his lifetime, since his death in 1982, his stature has grown to mythic proportions.
  Media and corporations enlarge certain people to mythic proportions.
  The man has achieved almost mythic status of ludicrous proportions.
  The saga of the computing industry is rich with outsize characters and surprising plot turns, but there's one story that has risen over time to mythic proportions.
  The presence of magick and unbelievable things of mythic proportion might cause you to believe different, but these things are true, they are wherever you look.
  It's elusive, but has all the mythic proportions and qualities of the proverbial pot of gold.
  And cycling in London really is a war zone of mythic proportions.
  He really has almost mythic and heroic proportions.
  Aquariums, like adultery, draw us into a shadowy underworld of unspoken sensual pleasures, an engrossing, exotic environment harboring dangers of mythic proportion.
  The giant squid has always enjoyed a reputation of mythic proportions.

Origin

Mid 17th century: via late Latin from Greek muthikos, from muthos 'myth'.

Rhymes

Eolithic, megalithic, Mesolithic, monolithic, neolithic, Palaeolithic (US Paleolithic)

Definition of mythic in US English:

mythic

adjectiveˈmɪθɪkˈmiTHik

1Relating to or resembling myth.
（与）神话（有关）的；神话般的
we explain spiritual forces in mythic language
我们用神话般的语言解释精神力量。
Example sentencesExamples
- Contemporary belief stories and older myths intermingle to create the rich mythic tapestry that forms the backdrop to vernacular and alternative religiosity there.
- The stories of coastal Aboriginal people are tales of sea creatures and their journeyings, stories that connect past mythic events with present coastal land and reefscapes.
- The world they frequent is loosely based on Greek mythology, with gods, demigods, and mythic creatures in abundance.
- It is a fantasy world with mythic beasts and people wearing Victorian clothes, and speaking in the appropriate Victorian tongue - rather like the history of the tube itself.
- When her interview subjects spoke of marriage as an institution, they were more likely to use the language of mythic love.
- Such recognition may involve confronting their own deaths or entering into contact with ghosts, mythic and otherworldly creatures.
- I'd like to be able to counter some of the most pernicious half- and un-truths, and need to do some of it on the same battle-ground of non-rational language and mythic references.
- It is here that Walker's text swerves most radically from the myth of Philomela and from the mythic paradigm.
- The Grey Fox imagines a mythic past for the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia out of a brief moment in actual history.
- This set a mythic food-producing vessel at the centre of a Celtic agricultural myth (of the type Frazer had created).
- In the earlier days of human society natural phenomena were accorded great significance and often described in mythic terms.
- Meanwhile, I had been working on my own theology, inventing deities to represent the most profound forces at work in my life, and giving them symbolic correspondences and mythic imagery.
- Daly has an intuitive feel for the mythic nature of cinema, and knows that myth and authenticity are not mutually exclusive.
- Clearly, speedy mercury was just the stuff to power these mythic ancient craft!
- Not only myths, but the nature of that which makes stories mythic changes once stories are technologically reproducible and we begin to attribute authorship.
- But Greek metaphysics, through its ‘binary’ opposition to myth, carried its mythic antagonist with it as its doppelgänger.
- This essay examines Nemesis' mythic origin and relates her special impetus to the historical morphology
- Formulated as much from myth as from historical occurrences, mythic history both produces and reflects collective historical imagination.
- Both had the same attitude to language - MacRae wanted to retain something of a mythic feel; Armitage described the result as ‘somewhere between rhetoric and conversation’.
- If a painting had depth it meant that it still embodied all the mythic material that was important to the Aborigines themselves.
- In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, Berbers create a mythic monstrous figure called the Bilmawn, a man dressed in the skins of a sheep slaughtered on the first day of the Feast of the Sacrifice.
- Maybe he is a brother in mind to fellow Frenchman Albert Camus, who imagined Sysiphos, the mythic figure trying to roll a heavy stone uphill and destined to forever fail, as a happy person.
- And how are we supposed to lure this mythic creature?
- So it acquires a mythic status based on inference and speculation, rather than actual content.
- It was over the maelstrom of the First World War trenches that these winged men became the mythic symbols of a new tomorrow.
- The Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, was a mythic creature well-known in the Pacific Northwest - twelve feet tall, or so they say.
- It is the task of art, I believe, to establish connection again with the mythic realm, to help heal the rift between myth and religion, and to open a door to the deeper meanings contained within us.
- There is an extensive Spanish language historiography examining the department's mythic past, with a corresponding literature in English.
- Ancestors and parents inhabit Paul's anecdotal poems, which also pay close attention to local creatures, mythic and otherwise.
- The fluid interplay of languages in Britain during the Middle Ages is illustrated by three events in the 12c, all associated with the cycle of mythic and legendary material known as the Matter of Britain.
- Pinsky uses mythic language to make us see sacred texts newly, to question their implications.
- So Harris argues, ‘Given the power of our technology… we have simply lost the right to our myths and to our mythic identities.’
- All the mythic versions of women, from the myth of the redeeming purity of the virgin to that of the healing, reconciling mother, are consolatory nonsenses; and consolatory nonsense seems to me a fair definition of myth, anyway.
Synonyms
mythical, legendary, mythological, fabled, folkloric, fairy-tale, heroic, traditional
1. 1.1 Exaggerated or idealized.
  夸张的；被理想化的；被神话化了的
  he was a national hero of mythic proportions
  南极洲探险家斯科特是一个被理想化了的民族英雄。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The presence of magick and unbelievable things of mythic proportion might cause you to believe different, but these things are true, they are wherever you look.
  Already a superstar in his lifetime, since his death in 1982, his stature has grown to mythic proportions.
  It was a medieval scene of mythic proportions involving open flames, a large pot of super-heated oil and a turkey hanging from a metal hook.
  The saga of the computing industry is rich with outsize characters and surprising plot turns, but there's one story that has risen over time to mythic proportions.
  The man has achieved almost mythic status of ludicrous proportions.
  He really has almost mythic and heroic proportions.
  It was an enormous physical structure, with a base measuring 676 square feet, but more than anything else its proportions were mythic.
  For an experience or an epoch to take on mythic proportions, it usually needs the reverberating perspective of cherished memories that we may have about departed possibilities.
  The giant squid has always enjoyed a reputation of mythic proportions.
  After a century of suspicion, ridicule, character assassination and scientific debunking, Freud has not only survived, but grown into a figure of mythic proportions.
  His reputation attained mythic proportions; but resentment grew as Ferrari began to dominate an inherently imbalanced sport.
  And cycling in London really is a war zone of mythic proportions.
  From that point forward, Marley would become not only a huge superstar but, really, an icon of mythic proportions.
  Media and corporations enlarge certain people to mythic proportions.
  This was becoming a search of mythic proportions for a Holy Grail.
  It's elusive, but has all the mythic proportions and qualities of the proverbial pot of gold.
  It is this defensive behavior that Hollywood has raised to mythic proportions.
  Aquariums, like adultery, draw us into a shadowy underworld of unspoken sensual pleasures, an engrossing, exotic environment harboring dangers of mythic proportion.
  In fact, he has been telling tall tales for a long time to his children, inflating events in his own life to mythic proportions.
  When Scotland's future looked most grim, a hero arose of mythic proportions.

Origin

Mid 17th century: via late Latin from Greek muthikos, from muthos ‘myth’.

词汇	mythic
释义	Definition of mythic in English: mythic adjective ˈmɪθɪkˈmɪθɪk 1Mythical. mythic creatures a mythic land of plenty 一个虚构的富裕之邦。 Example sentencesExamples But Greek metaphysics, through its ‘binary’ opposition to myth, carried its mythic antagonist with it as its doppelgänger. Pinsky uses mythic language to make us see sacred texts newly, to question their implications. Ancestors and parents inhabit Paul's anecdotal poems, which also pay close attention to local creatures, mythic and otherwise. The fluid interplay of languages in Britain during the Middle Ages is illustrated by three events in the 12c, all associated with the cycle of mythic and legendary material known as the Matter of Britain. It is here that Walker's text swerves most radically from the myth of Philomela and from the mythic paradigm. The world they frequent is loosely based on Greek mythology, with gods, demigods, and mythic creatures in abundance. Daly has an intuitive feel for the mythic nature of cinema, and knows that myth and authenticity are not mutually exclusive. It is the task of art, I believe, to establish connection again with the mythic realm, to help heal the rift between myth and religion, and to open a door to the deeper meanings contained within us. Such recognition may involve confronting their own deaths or entering into contact with ghosts, mythic and otherworldly creatures. If a painting had depth it meant that it still embodied all the mythic material that was important to the Aborigines themselves. Clearly, speedy mercury was just the stuff to power these mythic ancient craft! The Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, was a mythic creature well-known in the Pacific Northwest - twelve feet tall, or so they say. Formulated as much from myth as from historical occurrences, mythic history both produces and reflects collective historical imagination. This essay examines Nemesis' mythic origin and relates her special impetus to the historical morphology I'd like to be able to counter some of the most pernicious half- and un-truths, and need to do some of it on the same battle-ground of non-rational language and mythic references. Not only myths, but the nature of that which makes stories mythic changes once stories are technologically reproducible and we begin to attribute authorship. In the earlier days of human society natural phenomena were accorded great significance and often described in mythic terms. There is an extensive Spanish language historiography examining the department's mythic past, with a corresponding literature in English. In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, Berbers create a mythic monstrous figure called the Bilmawn, a man dressed in the skins of a sheep slaughtered on the first day of the Feast of the Sacrifice. And how are we supposed to lure this mythic creature? So Harris argues, ‘Given the power of our technology… we have simply lost the right to our myths and to our mythic identities.’ Both had the same attitude to language - MacRae wanted to retain something of a mythic feel; Armitage described the result as ‘somewhere between rhetoric and conversation’. The Grey Fox imagines a mythic past for the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia out of a brief moment in actual history. This set a mythic food-producing vessel at the centre of a Celtic agricultural myth (of the type Frazer had created). The stories of coastal Aboriginal people are tales of sea creatures and their journeyings, stories that connect past mythic events with present coastal land and reefscapes. Maybe he is a brother in mind to fellow Frenchman Albert Camus, who imagined Sysiphos, the mythic figure trying to roll a heavy stone uphill and destined to forever fail, as a happy person. It was over the maelstrom of the First World War trenches that these winged men became the mythic symbols of a new tomorrow. So it acquires a mythic status based on inference and speculation, rather than actual content. When her interview subjects spoke of marriage as an institution, they were more likely to use the language of mythic love. All the mythic versions of women, from the myth of the redeeming purity of the virgin to that of the healing, reconciling mother, are consolatory nonsenses; and consolatory nonsense seems to me a fair definition of myth, anyway. Meanwhile, I had been working on my own theology, inventing deities to represent the most profound forces at work in my life, and giving them symbolic correspondences and mythic imagery. Contemporary belief stories and older myths intermingle to create the rich mythic tapestry that forms the backdrop to vernacular and alternative religiosity there. It is a fantasy world with mythic beasts and people wearing Victorian clothes, and speaking in the appropriate Victorian tongue - rather like the history of the tube itself. Synonyms mythical, legendary, mythological, fabled, folkloric, fairy-tale, heroic, traditional 1.1 Exaggerated or idealized. 夸张的；被理想化的；被神话化了的 Scott of the Antarctic was a national hero of mythic proportions 南极洲探险家斯科特是一个被理想化了的民族英雄。 Example sentencesExamples It was a medieval scene of mythic proportions involving open flames, a large pot of super-heated oil and a turkey hanging from a metal hook. From that point forward, Marley would become not only a huge superstar but, really, an icon of mythic proportions. It is this defensive behavior that Hollywood has raised to mythic proportions. When Scotland's future looked most grim, a hero arose of mythic proportions. After a century of suspicion, ridicule, character assassination and scientific debunking, Freud has not only survived, but grown into a figure of mythic proportions. His reputation attained mythic proportions; but resentment grew as Ferrari began to dominate an inherently imbalanced sport. This was becoming a search of mythic proportions for a Holy Grail. In fact, he has been telling tall tales for a long time to his children, inflating events in his own life to mythic proportions. For an experience or an epoch to take on mythic proportions, it usually needs the reverberating perspective of cherished memories that we may have about departed possibilities. It was an enormous physical structure, with a base measuring 676 square feet, but more than anything else its proportions were mythic. Already a superstar in his lifetime, since his death in 1982, his stature has grown to mythic proportions. Media and corporations enlarge certain people to mythic proportions. The man has achieved almost mythic status of ludicrous proportions. The saga of the computing industry is rich with outsize characters and surprising plot turns, but there's one story that has risen over time to mythic proportions. The presence of magick and unbelievable things of mythic proportion might cause you to believe different, but these things are true, they are wherever you look. It's elusive, but has all the mythic proportions and qualities of the proverbial pot of gold. And cycling in London really is a war zone of mythic proportions. He really has almost mythic and heroic proportions. Aquariums, like adultery, draw us into a shadowy underworld of unspoken sensual pleasures, an engrossing, exotic environment harboring dangers of mythic proportion. The giant squid has always enjoyed a reputation of mythic proportions. Origin Mid 17th century: via late Latin from Greek muthikos, from muthos 'myth'. Rhymes Eolithic, megalithic, Mesolithic, monolithic, neolithic, Palaeolithic (US Paleolithic) Definition of mythic in US English: mythic adjectiveˈmɪθɪkˈmiTHik 1Relating to or resembling myth. （与）神话（有关）的；神话般的 we explain spiritual forces in mythic language 我们用神话般的语言解释精神力量。 Example sentencesExamples Contemporary belief stories and older myths intermingle to create the rich mythic tapestry that forms the backdrop to vernacular and alternative religiosity there. The stories of coastal Aboriginal people are tales of sea creatures and their journeyings, stories that connect past mythic events with present coastal land and reefscapes. The world they frequent is loosely based on Greek mythology, with gods, demigods, and mythic creatures in abundance. It is a fantasy world with mythic beasts and people wearing Victorian clothes, and speaking in the appropriate Victorian tongue - rather like the history of the tube itself. When her interview subjects spoke of marriage as an institution, they were more likely to use the language of mythic love. Such recognition may involve confronting their own deaths or entering into contact with ghosts, mythic and otherworldly creatures. I'd like to be able to counter some of the most pernicious half- and un-truths, and need to do some of it on the same battle-ground of non-rational language and mythic references. It is here that Walker's text swerves most radically from the myth of Philomela and from the mythic paradigm. The Grey Fox imagines a mythic past for the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia out of a brief moment in actual history. This set a mythic food-producing vessel at the centre of a Celtic agricultural myth (of the type Frazer had created). In the earlier days of human society natural phenomena were accorded great significance and often described in mythic terms. Meanwhile, I had been working on my own theology, inventing deities to represent the most profound forces at work in my life, and giving them symbolic correspondences and mythic imagery. Daly has an intuitive feel for the mythic nature of cinema, and knows that myth and authenticity are not mutually exclusive. Clearly, speedy mercury was just the stuff to power these mythic ancient craft! Not only myths, but the nature of that which makes stories mythic changes once stories are technologically reproducible and we begin to attribute authorship. But Greek metaphysics, through its ‘binary’ opposition to myth, carried its mythic antagonist with it as its doppelgänger. This essay examines Nemesis' mythic origin and relates her special impetus to the historical morphology Formulated as much from myth as from historical occurrences, mythic history both produces and reflects collective historical imagination. Both had the same attitude to language - MacRae wanted to retain something of a mythic feel; Armitage described the result as ‘somewhere between rhetoric and conversation’. If a painting had depth it meant that it still embodied all the mythic material that was important to the Aborigines themselves. In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, Berbers create a mythic monstrous figure called the Bilmawn, a man dressed in the skins of a sheep slaughtered on the first day of the Feast of the Sacrifice. Maybe he is a brother in mind to fellow Frenchman Albert Camus, who imagined Sysiphos, the mythic figure trying to roll a heavy stone uphill and destined to forever fail, as a happy person. And how are we supposed to lure this mythic creature? So it acquires a mythic status based on inference and speculation, rather than actual content. It was over the maelstrom of the First World War trenches that these winged men became the mythic symbols of a new tomorrow. The Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, was a mythic creature well-known in the Pacific Northwest - twelve feet tall, or so they say. It is the task of art, I believe, to establish connection again with the mythic realm, to help heal the rift between myth and religion, and to open a door to the deeper meanings contained within us. There is an extensive Spanish language historiography examining the department's mythic past, with a corresponding literature in English. Ancestors and parents inhabit Paul's anecdotal poems, which also pay close attention to local creatures, mythic and otherwise. The fluid interplay of languages in Britain during the Middle Ages is illustrated by three events in the 12c, all associated with the cycle of mythic and legendary material known as the Matter of Britain. Pinsky uses mythic language to make us see sacred texts newly, to question their implications. So Harris argues, ‘Given the power of our technology… we have simply lost the right to our myths and to our mythic identities.’ All the mythic versions of women, from the myth of the redeeming purity of the virgin to that of the healing, reconciling mother, are consolatory nonsenses; and consolatory nonsense seems to me a fair definition of myth, anyway. Synonyms mythical, legendary, mythological, fabled, folkloric, fairy-tale, heroic, traditional 1.1 Exaggerated or idealized. 夸张的；被理想化的；被神话化了的 he was a national hero of mythic proportions 南极洲探险家斯科特是一个被理想化了的民族英雄。 Example sentencesExamples The presence of magick and unbelievable things of mythic proportion might cause you to believe different, but these things are true, they are wherever you look. Already a superstar in his lifetime, since his death in 1982, his stature has grown to mythic proportions. It was a medieval scene of mythic proportions involving open flames, a large pot of super-heated oil and a turkey hanging from a metal hook. The saga of the computing industry is rich with outsize characters and surprising plot turns, but there's one story that has risen over time to mythic proportions. The man has achieved almost mythic status of ludicrous proportions. He really has almost mythic and heroic proportions. It was an enormous physical structure, with a base measuring 676 square feet, but more than anything else its proportions were mythic. For an experience or an epoch to take on mythic proportions, it usually needs the reverberating perspective of cherished memories that we may have about departed possibilities. The giant squid has always enjoyed a reputation of mythic proportions. After a century of suspicion, ridicule, character assassination and scientific debunking, Freud has not only survived, but grown into a figure of mythic proportions. His reputation attained mythic proportions; but resentment grew as Ferrari began to dominate an inherently imbalanced sport. And cycling in London really is a war zone of mythic proportions. From that point forward, Marley would become not only a huge superstar but, really, an icon of mythic proportions. Media and corporations enlarge certain people to mythic proportions. This was becoming a search of mythic proportions for a Holy Grail. It's elusive, but has all the mythic proportions and qualities of the proverbial pot of gold. It is this defensive behavior that Hollywood has raised to mythic proportions. Aquariums, like adultery, draw us into a shadowy underworld of unspoken sensual pleasures, an engrossing, exotic environment harboring dangers of mythic proportion. In fact, he has been telling tall tales for a long time to his children, inflating events in his own life to mythic proportions. When Scotland's future looked most grim, a hero arose of mythic proportions. Origin Mid 17th century: via late Latin from Greek muthikos, from muthos ‘myth’.
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