mythical

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity

From Latin mȳthicos + -al; by surface analysis, myth + -ical.

716 The Moon-mountain here is mythical. — The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse, Valmiki
[80] The mythical founder of the walls of Thebes. — The Anabasis of Alexander : $b or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great, Arrian
Some historians and investigators explain him as purely a mythical personage. — South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure, Cyrus Townsend Brady

fabulous, mythic, mythologic, mythological

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