Meaning of CHIMERICAL
| Pronunciation: | | ki'merikul
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- [adj] produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush
- [adj] being or relating to or like a chimera; "his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Doublas Bush
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| | Synonyms: | | chimeral, chimeric, unrealistic |
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| | Definition: | | \Chi*mer"ic*al\, a.
Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly
conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except
in thought; as, chimerical projects.
Syn: Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain;
deceitful; delusive.
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| | Related Terms: | | absurd, aerial, air-built, airy, ambitious, apparent, apparitional, autistic, Barmecidal, Barmecide, chimeric, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dreamlike, dreamy, erroneous, ethereal, fabulous, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, fictional, fictive, gaseous, gossamery, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mythical, ostensible, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phantomlike, preposterous, pretentious, rarefied, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, shadowy, specious, spectral, spirituous, subtile, subtle, supposititious, tenuous, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vaporous, vapory, visionary, windy |
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