Need another word that means the same as “mythical”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “mythical” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Mythical” are: fabulous, mythic, mythologic, mythological, legendary, fabled, chimerical, heroic, ancient, traditional, romantic, imaginary, fictitious, make-believe, fanciful, fabricated, made-up, unreal, untrue
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “mythical” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| ancient | Very old. Ancient forests. |
| chimerical | Produced by a wildly fanciful imagination- Douglas Bush. His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists. |
| fabled | Famous, especially by reputation. The fabled kingdom. |
| fabricated | Formed or conceived by the imagination. A fabricated excuse for his absence. |
| fabulous | Very good; wonderful. A fabulous vacation. |
| fanciful | Over-imaginative and unrealistic. A fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers. |
| fictitious | Occurring in or invented for fiction. A fictitious address. |
| heroic | (of language or a work of art) grand or grandiose in scale or intention. They took heroic measures to save his life. |
| imaginary | Not based on fact; existing only in the imagination. A small child s imaginary friends. |
| legendary | Remarkable enough to be famous; very well known. Legendary exploits of Jesse James. |
| made-up | Having been paved. |
| make-believe | Imagined as in a play. |
| mythic | Mythical. Mythic creatures. |
| mythologic | Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity. |
| mythological | Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity. The tree of life is one of the oldest of all mythological symbols. |
| romantic | Relating to or denoting the artistic and literary movement of romanticism. The romantic tradition. |
| traditional | (of jazz) in the style of the early 20th century. The traditional drinks in the clubhouse. |
| unreal | Lacking material form or substance unreal. Ghosts and other unreal entities. |
| untrue | Not according with the facts. A malicious and untrue story. |
| arcane | Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge. Arcane procedures for electing people. |
| centaur | A conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross. |
| chimera | A thing which is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve. The sheeplike goat chimera. |
| chimerical | Being or relating to or like a chimera- Douglas Bush. His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists. |
| deification | The elevation of a person (as to the status of a god. The capitalists deification of capital. |
| dragon | A mythical monster like a giant reptile In European tradition the dragon is typically fire breathing and tends to symbolize chaos or evil whereas in East Asia it is usually a beneficent symbol of fertility associated with water and the heavens. The geography teacher was a real dragon. |
| dryad | A dark brown Eurasian butterfly with two prominent bluish eyespots on each forewing. |
| dwarf | A person who is of unusually or abnormally small stature because of a congenital condition a person affected by dwarfism. The lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines. |
| fabled | Celebrated in fable or legend. A fabled art collection. |
| fabulous | Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity. Fabulous creatures. |
| fairy | A small imaginary being of human form that has magical powers, especially a female one. Fairy gold. |
| faun | One of a class of lustful rural gods, represented as a man with a goat’s horns, ears, legs, and tail. |
| giant | Used in names of very large animals and plants e g giant hogweed giant tortoise. A giant meteorite. |
| gnome | A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth’s treasures underground. The gnomes of Zurich. |
| hero | (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her. RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain. |
| incredible | Beyond belief or understanding. The noise from the crowd was incredible. |
| legend | An extremely famous or notorious person, especially in a particular field. See legend to Fig 1. |
| legendary | So celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend. Her wisdom in matters of childbirth was legendary. |
| miracle | A remarkable event or development that brings very welcome consequences. The miracle of rising from the grave. |
| mystery | Something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain. What happened after he left home that day remains a mystery. |
| myth | An exaggerated or idealized conception of a person or thing. Nobody had ever heard of Simon s mysterious friend Anna said he was a myth. |
| mythological | Relating to, based on, or appearing in myths or mythology. The tree of life is one of the oldest of all mythological symbols. |
| mythology | Myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person. This field includes archaeology comparative mythology and folklore. |
| noted | Widely known and esteemed. The restaurant is noted for its high standards of cuisine. |
| phoenix | A legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years. I m that phoenix the old fashioned family doctor. |
| saga | A long story of heroic achievement, especially a medieval prose narrative in Old Norse or Old Icelandic. Launching into the saga of her engagement. |
| satyr | A satyrid butterfly with chiefly dark brown wings. Charles was an unmarried satyr. |
| sylph | An elemental being believed to inhabit the air. An oh so slim sylph dressed in a black leotard. |
| tale | A fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted. A delightful children s tale. |
| unicorn | A heraldic representation of a unicorn with a twisted horn a deer s feet a goat s beard and a lion s tail. Team entries comprised two fours three unicorns and a three abreast. |
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