chimerical
unreal; imaginary; visionary:a chimerical terrestrial paradise.
wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic: a chimerical plan.
Origin of chimerical
1- Also chi·mer·ic [ki-mer-ik, -meer-, kahy-] /kɪˈmɛr ɪk, -ˈmɪər-, kaɪ-/ .
Other words for chimerical
Opposites for chimerical
Other words from chimerical
- chi·mer·i·cal·ly, adverb
- non·chi·mer·ic, adjective
- non·chi·mer·i·cal, adjective
- non·chi·mer·i·cal·ly, adverb
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How to use chimerical in a sentence
What is called magic is not a vain and chimerical art, as the Stoics and Epicureans pretend.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)There is, at least, no country in Europe in which servility has not invented and vanity received genealogies yet more chimerical.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)The idea originally entertained of turning part of the Vailima estate into a profitable plantation turned out chimerical.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonI would not barter one hour of such thoughts—chimerical though they may be—for ten years of this vapid, surface life.
Alone | Marion HarlandA false religion must necessarily bestow upon those who practise it only a false, chimerical, and transient utility.
Letters To Eugenia | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
British Dictionary definitions for chimerical
chimeric (kaɪˈmɛrɪk)
/ (kaɪˈmɛrɪkəl, kɪ-) /
wildly fanciful; imaginary
given to or indulging in fantasies
Derived forms of chimerical
- chimerically, adverb
- chimericalness, noun
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