Definizione monolingua

mythic

mythic (comparative more mythic, superlative most mythic)

1. Larger-than-life.
   • 1998, Chloé Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations, page 88:

     Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.

   • 2007, James Daniel Hardy, Baseball and the mythic moment: how we remember the national game, page 63:

     Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.

   • 2008, Peter Schmidt, Sitting in darkness: New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow, page 156:

     The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.

   • 2010, Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society, page 161:

     By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.

2. Mythical; existing in myth.
   • 2005, Gerhard Hoffmann, From modernism to postmodernism: concepts and strategies, page 294:

     Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for mythic heroes.

   • 2008, Laurence Jay Silberstein, Postzionism: a reader, page 351:

     The ways in which Eastern Europe has become a mythic part of the Jewish past and not an imagined mythic home in the future is central to understanding how American Jews see themselves at home in America.

Definizione dizionario mythic

mitico

mitologico

Altri significati:

mythical

heroic

awe-inspiring