1.
Something or someone that is ~ exists only in myths and is therefore imaginary.
...the Hydra, the ~ beast that had seven or more heads.
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2.
If you describe something as ~, you mean that it is untrue or does not exist.
...the American West, not the ~, romanticized West of cowboys and gunslingers, but the real West.
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