chimerical

(kī-mĕr'ĭ-kəl, -mîr'-, kĭ-) also chi·mer·ic (-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.

IN BRIEF: Absurd, impossible or unreal.

The chimerical creatures populated the famous painting.

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For a list of words related to chimerical, see:

• 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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