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chimerical

  (kī-mĕr'ĭ-kəl, -mîr'-, kĭ-) pronunciation also chimeric (-mĕr'ĭk, -mîr'-)
adj.
  1. Created by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; highly improbable.
  2. Given to unrealistic fantasies; fanciful.
  3. often chimeric Of, related to, or being a chimera.
chimerically chi·mer'i·cal·ly adv.
 
 
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adjective

  1. Existing only in the imagination: chimeric, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal, visionary. See real/imaginary.
  2. Of, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality: chimeric, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, hallucinatory, illusive, illusory, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic, visionary. See real/imaginary.

 
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IN BRIEF: Absurd, impossible or unreal.

pronunciation The chimerical creatures populated the famous painting.

 
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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: being or relating to or like a chimera
  Synonyms: chimeric, chimeral
  Pertains to noun: Chimera (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: produced by a wildly fanciful imagination


 
 

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