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mythical Adjective

— If something is mythical it is from a myth (a story about gods). There are many mythical stories about the Norse god Thor.

— If something is mythical it is not real or not true; that is, it is like something from a fictional story or old myth. A dragon is a mythical animal. A mythical way to kill bees is with alcohol but it does not really work

— If something is mythical or of mythical proportions it is very great or amazing. His skill with the baseball bat was mythical. His team had a win of mythical proportions.

mythical

— adjective (= fabulous) based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity mythical centaurs the fabulous unicorn

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mythical English » English

mythic

mythological

fabulous

mythologic

legendary

fictitious

fantastic

fabled

real

pseudomythological

imaginary

ancestor

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The mythical Kraken, thick as a ship and three times as wide, once made an attack on Christopher Columbus's fleet. giving Columbus no choice but to eat him.

Am I supposed to, single-handedly, strengthened only by the mythical magic of my forebears, in heroic fashion smash his armies and save the beautiful princess from his clutches to finally deliver him to.

Would you look at that! After a long and exhausting quest I finally managed to find the mythical Scroll of Swordsmanship.

Movie subtitles

He believes me to be the mythical Caligari.

The shapes between the trees, resembling the shell of some mythical animal are just the roof tiles of the village.

At this moment we are unprepared to establish evidence that will prove. that the original Baron of Arizona, Miguel de Peralta. was a mythical gentleman created by the fertile brain of Mr. Reavis.

Does your crystal ball reveal by what enemy. this mythical attack will be made?

California named after a mythical island of pearls and gold in a 15th-century novel.

Fragile constructions by the water's edge, the mythical East of postcards, plaster facades, trompe l'oeil decorations painted on stretched canvas all around your room.

The phoenix was a mythical bird that burnt itself to ashes and rose.

Now we've landed in France. and we still haven't had any sign of your mythical secret weapon.

No, not your mythical devil, Jo, no.

They're huge mythical continents from three million years ago, Lemuria in the Pacific Ocean and Mu in the Atlantic.

The mythical island.

Instead she sits and knits things for orphans in some home. and I sit opposite turning over the pages of books on mythical Greece.

The finicky, critical husband, with his art books on mythical Greece?

The mythical lie of Cannibal Ferox was only an alibi to justify the greed and cruelty of the conquistadores.

I was a medical officer, he, an interpreter. It was a mythical Algeria.

So you've managed to convince them that I'm the mythical Colonel Moran?

Not mythical Colonel.

That's a phoenix, a mythical bird, rising out of the ashes of age.

I'd like to see that mythical list of yours.

And most glittering of all, California named after a mythical island of pearls and gold in a 1 5th-century novel.

It's a mythical Empire which sank into the Pacific Ocean thousands of years ago!

Once upon a time in a mythical place called Cape Kennedy an astronaut named Tony Nelson went up on a space mission.

So she followed him back to Cocoa Beach a mythical town in a mythical state called Florida.

Yes, some mythical river.

In the vivid imagination of my townsmen, women took on mythical status.

Rio Grande, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, El Paso and most glittering of all, California named after a mythical island of pearls and gold in a 15th century novel.

In a mythical castle in medieval Europe there lived a count and his wife.

Because only he who is mythical is realistic and vice versa.

Why would I talk about a mythical creature from children's stories?

The Thaarn is as mythical to me. as dragons and unicorns are to the people of Earth.

And that this mythical couple, these other people.

But wasn't it a mythical creature?

News and current affairs

At this point, however, relations between China and Russia appear to be far better than the mythical friendship of my childhood.

Those in Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, India and other emerging markets should be told a quite different message: do not strive for a mythical free-market economy, which has never existed.

Moi was a mythical figure to me, because he didn't live in Nairagie Enkare, yet he was always present through radio, a technology too complicated for a child like me to understand.

The end of the conflict, like the requirement that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state, is a concept that has unnecessarily acquired mythical meaning.

Many Europeans, above all in the new NATO member-states, would then demand more protection from the mythical Russian Leviathan.

But we should be clear about where we are coming from, and why - and that there was no golden age of European liberal democracy, whether before World War II, in the 1950's, or at some other mythical point.

The other thing both films share is a fascination with mythical stories, the Book of Job in Leviathan, and martial-arts fiction in A Touch of Sin.