CHIMERICAL

chimerical

(adjective) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; “his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists”- Douglas Bush

chimeric, chimerical, chimeral

(adjective) 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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

chimerical (comparative more chimerical, superlative most chimerical)

Of or pertaining to a chimera.

Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).

Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.

Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.

Anagrams

• cimeliarch

Source: Wiktionary


Chi*mer"ic*al, a.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET




Word of the Day

3 July 2025

SENSE

(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”


coffee icon

Coffee Trivia

Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.

coffee icon