Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Sisyphus | Yes | No | No | No |
fable | Yes | No | No | No |
Sisyphus (noun) | fable (noun) |
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(Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again | a short moral story (often with animal characters) |
a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | |
a deliberately false or improbable account |