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Definition: Mythic |
MythicAdjective1. Relating to or having the nature of myth; "a novel of almost mythic consequence". 2. Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mythic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: MythicSynonyms: fabulous (adj), mythical (adj), mythologic (adj), mythological (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mythic |
| English words defined with "mythic": Gilgamesh ♦ Mithic ♦ Orphean. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mythic": Mount of the congregation ♦ Raghu. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mythic": Icarian. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Th-that was funny if you, um, studied Taglarin mythic rites and are a complete dork (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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| "PARADISE" by Matthew Mcnulty Commentary: "MYTHIC SEAS." |
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| "Mythic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mythic" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 98 | 33,072 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "mythic": neo-mythic, pseudo-mythic. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mythic | 99 |
mythic entertainment | 32 |
dragon mythic | 17 |
creature mythic | 16 |
the mythic tarot | 7 |
legion mythic | 5 |
mythic game | 4 |
mythic realm | 4 |
art mythic | 3 |
mythic naturalism | 3 |
god mythic | 3 |
dragon mythic yugioh | 3 |
mythic warrior | 3 |
daoc mythic | 3 |
image mythic | 3 |
morgans mythic | 3 |
dragon gi mythic oh yu | 2 |
mythic dark age of camelot | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mythic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | أسطوري (legendary, mythical, mythological). (various references) | |
Chinese | 神话 (Myth, Mythical, Mythological, Mythologies, Mythology). (various references) | |
German | mythisch (mythical). (various references) | |
Greek | μυθώδησ (fabulous, legendary, mythical), μυθικόσ (legendary, mythical). (various references) | |
Italian | mitico (legendary, mythical). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ythicmay.(various references) | |
Romanian | mitic (mythical), legendar (legendary, mythical, storied). (various references) | |
Russian | мифический (fabulous, mythical). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งเป็นเทพนิยายโบราณ. (various references) | |
Turkish | mitsi (mythical), efsanevi (cyclic, cyclical, fabled, larger than life, legendary, mythical). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фантастичний (airy, arabesque, chimerical, crackpot, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, moonshiny, mythical, romantic), вигаданий (airy, assumed, fabled, feigned, fictional, fictitious, make believe, mythical), міфічний (fabled, fabulous, mythical, mythologic, mythological). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mythic": mythical, mythically, mythicize, mythicized, mythicizer, mythicizers, mythicizes, mythicizing. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mythic": stichomythic. (additional references) | |
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"Mythic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dmytrik, mathics, Methlick, mithai, Mitnick, myshkin, Mythe, mythen, mytho, mythric, Nbthis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mythic" (pronounced mi"thik) |
| 4 | -i" th i k | lithic, monolithic. |
| 3 | -th i k | ethic, gothic, osteopathic, psychopathic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: thymic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-m-t-y" | |
-1 letter: itchy, thymi. | |
-2 letters: chit, city, itch, mity, myth. | |
-3 letters: chi, hic, him, hit, ich, icy, thy, tic. | |
-4 letters: hi, hm, it, mi, my, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-m-t-y" | |
+1 letter: chymist. | |
+2 letters: arythmic, chymists, methylic, mythical, rhythmic. | |
+3 letters: chemistry, dichotomy, eurythmic, hemolytic, homolytic, lymphatic, myopathic, mythicize, rhythmics. | |
+4 letters: arrhythmic, ecchymotic, eurhythmic, eurythmics, hermatypic, lymphatics, matriarchy, mesophytic, metaphysic, myasthenic, mythically, mythicized, mythicizer, mythicizes, mythologic, mythopoeic, polymathic, rhythmical, trichotomy, unrhythmic. | |
+5 letters: amphictyony, bathymetric, biorhythmic, cryptarithm, cyclothymia, cyclothymic, dithyrambic, dysrhythmic, eurhythmics, eurythermic, hydrometric, hygrometric, hypermetric, hypothermic, hypsometric, lymphocytic, macrophytic, metaphysics, myasthenics, mycophagist, myelopathic, mythicizers, mythicizing, mythomaniac, mythopoetic, rhythmicity, scyphistoma, stichomythy, sympathetic, thermically. | |
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