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/kɪˈmɛɹəkəɫ/
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ADJECTIVE
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produced by a wildly fanciful imagination
his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists -
being or relating to or like a chimera
his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists
How To Use chimerical In A Sentence
- Because it offers resistance, however chimerical, to the teeth. THE SAVAGE GIRL
- As I maintained a while back, punk was part of the glam continuum; the ‘break’ between glam and punk looks chimerical.
- These are either altogether superfluous, mere badges of ostentation and luxurious wealth, or they point to some fifth function not so much as contemplated by other universities, and, at present, absolutely and chimerically beyond their means of attainment. Memorials and Other Papers — Complete
- In concert with contemporary theory, she posits a world of belated, thwarted deixis, of quasi-chimerical example.
- He interested his brother Etienne in these so-called chimerical projects. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- Most interpret the information from the victims as chimerical thinking.
- What is clear, is that returning to industrial-age conditions and equilibriums is chimerical. Is 'Fewer Makers, More Takers' an Inevitable Change?
- Mirabeau (who was to be the father of the famous orator) was a man of talent, but violent, chimerical and lawless, "farouche," as he himself put it. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
- As far as I can tell, however, Youtube's claimed magnanimousness is totally chimerical, and, furthermore, if it doesn't realize that it's generally considered bad style to make our lives an endless treadmill of government interferences while providing few real benefits to our health and happiness, then it should read one of the many self-help books on the subject. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
- She struggles for no kind of chimerical credit, disclaims the appearance of every affectation, and is in all things just what she seems, and others would be thought. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
