chimerical
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chi·mer·i·cal
(kī-mĕr'ĭ-kəl, -mîr'-, kĭ-) 
also chi·mer·ic (-mĕr'ĭk, -mîr'-)
adj.
also chi·mer·ic (-mĕr'ĭk, -mîr'-)adj.
- Created by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; highly improbable.
- Given to unrealistic fantasies; fanciful.
- often chimeric Of, related to, or being a chimera.
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chimerical
adjective
- Existing only in the imagination: chimeric, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal, visionary. See real/imaginary.
- 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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chimerical
IN BRIEF: Absurd, impossible or unreal.
The chimerical creatures populated the famous painting.
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categories related to 'chimerical'
- Falsehood, Pretense, and Exaggeration - chimerical: (adj) wildly improbable and imaginative
- Intuition and Imagination - chimerical: (adj) imaginary; visionary; wildly fanciful
- Occult States and Experiences - chimerical: (adj) visionary and improbable; existing only in fantastic imagination
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