based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity
<adj.all> mythical centaurs the fabulous unicorn
Mythic \Myth"ic\, Mythical \Myth"ic*al\, a. [L. mythicus, Gr. ?. See {Myth}.] Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful; mythological. -- {Myth"ic*al*ly}, adv.
The mythic turf where danced the nymphs. --Mrs. Browning.
Hengist and Horsa, Vortigern and Rowena, Arthur and Mordred, are mythical persons, whose very existence may be questioned. --Macaulay.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that 70 per cent of the German people go for walks in the 'mythic' German forest quite regularly in search of 'cleansing of the soul.'
Two recently published books spotlight the leader whose vivid personality has an almost mythic hold on many Indonesians who refer to themselves as Sukarnoists.
The mythic symbolism that informs his work is still the stuff of active belief and daily practice, of Zen Buddhism and animistic Shinto.
The past takes on mythic, even supernatural qualities in the play.
In sticking so closely to Steinbeck, Steppenwolf has transformed the book's passion into doggedness, its mythic style into vapid blandness.
Television, for years the mythic battleground for cops and robbers, is becoming as much a part of law enforcement equipment as handcuffs and badges.
The set's sub-title 'a white shade of blue', is also accurate, pointing to the fact that these white bluesmen of the 1920s and 1930s were more melancholic and rural and less mythic and impassioned than their black brothers.
The group also voted overwhelmingly that the language used to describe the future kingdom of God in the New Testament is mythic and symbolic, and recommended that people should not believe in or look forward to the Second Coming and new age.
This is done without a shred of mythic (or psychoanalytic) jargon.
The set is gargantuan, four stories of corroded scaffolding, orange girders and steam vents representing an abandoned steel mill that might easily dwarf any group of less mythic proportions.
Except that in CopyTele's case, the debate has been so long and heated that it's taking on mythic proportions.
Through 26 years behind bars in South African jails, Nelson Mandela has grown into a mythic symbol of black resistance to apartheid.
It cannot compete with such primitive, mythic enchantment but, as this enticing new collection shows, it has attractions of its own.
Here in America, the Muse is not mythic.
"No matter what you do, it has mythic proportions," he said. "When you're speaking, no matter the context, there is some kind of concentration that's not of this world.