chimerical

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
22
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/kɪˈmɛɹɪkəl/
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/kɪˈmɛɹɪkəl/ · /kaɪ-/

Definition of chimerical

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of or pertaining to a chimera.
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adj

  1. Of or pertaining to a chimera.
  2. Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
    “a chimerical goal”
    “"Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."”
    “With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s plan chimerical.”
  3. Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
    “"You are the most charming person in the world. You are invested with a perfect halo of delight," exclaimed Henrietta. "Miss Churchill has some chimerical notion of honour in her head, but that is over now; your information does not leave a single obstacle in the way of the most perfect happiness that ever wound up a fairy tale...”
  4. Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
  5. Impossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From chimera, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”). This term entered English in or around 1638.

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