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Definition of Chimerical

1. Adjective. Being or relating to or like a chimera. "His Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"

2. Adjective. Produced by a wildly fanciful imagination. "His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"

Definition of Chimerical

1. a. Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.

Definition of Chimerical

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a chimera. ¹

2. Adjective. Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense). ¹

3. Adjective. Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chimerical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chimerical

chimer chimera chimeral chimeralike chimeraplast chimeras chimere chimeres chimeric chimeric/humanised antibody

chimeric DNA chimeric antibodies chimeric antibody chimeric molecule chimeric proteins chimerical (current term) chimerically chimerid chimerids chimerism

chimerisms chimers chimes chimest chimichanga chimichangas chimichurri chimichurris chiminage chiminages

Literary usage of Chimerical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1782)
"been retailed in moft of the news-papers, is too chimerical to merit attention. ART. VII. ... chimerical ..."

2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"But, if any man thinks my reasons chimerical, I am ready to resign my command to his superior abilities." Yet all this bulky and embarrassing demand of ..."

3. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"... exact observance of all the precepts of the Church, and the chimerical nature of all speculations upon the primitive Protestantism of the Celtic Church. ..."

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