Adjective

(en-adj)

Dominant, having power over all others.

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Greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.

(botany) Situated at the highest part or point.

* (English Citations of "supreme") English adjectives commonly used as postmodifiers

Adjective

(en adjective)

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.

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.