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Chimerical

//kɪˈmɛɹɪkəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a chimera.
  2. 2
    Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).

    "a chimerical goal"

  3. 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. 4
    Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
  5. 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.
Adjective
  1. 1
    produced by a wildly fanciful imagination wordnet
  2. 2
    being or relating to or like a chimera wordnet

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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