mythologize

Other forms of mythologize

past tense

mythologized·

present participle

mythologizing·

third person

mythologizes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mythologize

What does mythologize mean?

mythologize means "construct a myth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mythologize?

mythologize has 4 syllables: my-tho-lo-gize. The stress falls on "tho".

What is another word for mythologize?

Close synonyms include mythologise, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of mythologize?

The recorded antonyms are demythologize.

Is mythologize a common word?

mythologize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.