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Antonyms for myth
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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.4 / 7 votes

  1. myth

    Fiction is now chiefly used of a prose work in narrative form in which the characters are partly or wholly imaginary, and which is designed to portray human life, with or without a practical lesson; a romance portrays what is picturesque or striking, as a mere fiction may not do; novel is a general name for any continuous fictitious narrative, especially a love-story; fiction and novel are used with little difference of meaning, except that novel characterizes a work in which the emotional element is especially prominent. The moral of the fable is expressed formally; the lesson of the fiction, if any, is inwrought. A fiction is studied; a myth grows up without intent. A legend may be true, but can not be historically verified; a myth has been received as true at some time, but is now known to be false. A fabrication is designed to deceive; it is a less odious word than falsehood, but is really stronger, as a falsehood may be a sudden unpremeditated statement, while a fabrication is a series of statements carefully studied and fitted together in order to deceive; the falsehood is all false; the fabrication may mingle the true with the false. A figment is something imaginary which the one who utters it may or may not believe to be true; we say, "That statement is a figment of his imagination." The story may be either true or false, and covers the various senses of all the words in the group. Apologue, a word simply transferred from Greek into English, is the same as fable. Compare ALLEGORY.

    Antonyms:
    certainty, fact, history, literalness, reality, truth, verity

    Synonyms:
    allegory, apologue, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fiction, figment, invention, legend, novel, romance, story

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. myth

    Antonyms:
    fact, history, narrative

    Synonyms:
    fable, legend, parable, supposition, fiction, allegory, fabulous story, fabrication

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mythnoun

    a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 2 votes

  1. mythnoun

    Synonyms:
    legend, tradition, fable

How to use myth in a sentence?

  1. Restore Justice:

    There's ample research that long sentences don't deter crime. It's actually the swiftness and the surety of consequences that deters crime, not the length of the sentence, the length of the sentence just costs the state and communities and families hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars and destroys lives. It doesn't make us safer. It's a myth.

  2. Roland Barthes:

    Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

  3. Alexander Grushko:

    There cannot be a return to 'business as usual' with NATO as long as the alliance does not reconsider its containment policy toward Russia and does stop bloating the myth of a military threat from Russia.

  4. Kisha James:

    I would say that, overall, people have become more aware that there's something wrong with the Thanksgiving myth and that there's this protest that happens every year in Plymouth, and that's reflected in our numbers. The first Is National Day of Mourning was about 150 to 200 people, which was actually pretty good for 1970. Now, we get between 1,500 and 2,000 annually. We also have a live stream so that people from all over the world can watch Is National Day Mourning.

  5. Ileana Adriana Stan:

    The resurrection of Jesus is pure myth.

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#2276truth
#2515reality
#8119narrative
#8854myth
#14578certainty
#33034verity

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