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chimerical

[ ki-mer-i-kuhl, -meer-, kahy- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

unreal; imaginary; visionary:
a chimerical terrestrial paradise.
Synonyms: fantastic, illusory
Antonyms: real
wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic:
a chimerical plan.

chimerical

/ kɪ-; kaɪˈmɛrɪk; kaɪˈmɛrɪkəl /

First recorded in 1630–40; chimer(a) + -ical

What is called magic is not a vain and chimerical art, as the Stoics and Epicureans pretend.

There is, at least, no country in Europe in which servility has not invented and vanity received genealogies yet more chimerical.

The idea originally entertained of turning part of the Vailima estate into a profitable plantation turned out chimerical.

I would not barter one hour of such thoughts—chimerical though they may be—for ten years of this vapid, surface life.

A false religion must necessarily bestow upon those who practise it only a false, chimerical, and transient utility.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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