Myth Synonyms and Antonyms

mĭth
A traditional story or tale that has no proven factual basis
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fable
  2. legend
A body of traditional beliefs and notions accumulated about a particular subject
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. legend
  2. fable
  3. folklore
  4. lore
  5. allegory
  6. story
  7. saga
  8. parable
  9. tale
  10. tradition
  11. folk-tale
  12. religion
  13. anecdote
  14. folk ballad
  15. fantasy
  16. mythos (Greek)
  17. mythology
  18. mythos
Antonyms:
  1. non-fiction
  2. fact
  3. truth
Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. creation
  2. fantasy
  3. fiction
  4. figment
  5. invention
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. mythologize

Words Related to Myth

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Myth Sentence Examples

  • At last the myth stopped being repeated.

  • The name, however, is so obscured by myth and fable as scarcely to belong to history.

  • With this may be compared the festivals of Adonis and Osiris and the myth of Persephone.

  • This would leave no time for the growth of his myth.; and his myth was, as is evident from what we have already said and quoted, full-grown in the first half of the 14th century.

  • Hence the battle has been explained as the necklace myth in epic form.

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