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chimerical
chimerical
3 definitions found
for chimerical
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Chimerical \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.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
chimerical
adj 1: being or relating to or like a chimera; "his Utopia is
not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement
on what already exists"- Douglas Bush [syn: chimeric,
chimerical, chimeral]
2: produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not
a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what
already exists"- Douglas Bush
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "chimerical":
Barmecidal, Barmecide, absurd, aerial, air-built, airy, ambitious,
apparent, apparitional, autistic, 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