Chimerical
[kaɪ'mɪərɪkəl]
Definition
(adj.) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; 'his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists'- Douglas Bush .
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Definition
(a.) Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Imaginary, fantastic, fanciful, visionary, illusory, shadowy, wild, Quixotic, Utopian.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See VISIONARY]
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Examples
- Both these parts are essential, nor is the distinction vain and chimerical. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The simple kind of Centrifugal Pump applied in that chimerical scheme was known upwards of one hundred years ago. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Your wishes are not so chimerical; you are no visionary. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The history of the steam engine affords a striking example of the gradual development of an invention from vague and chimerical notions, into an accomplished fact of astonishing magnitude. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The phaenomenon may be real, though my explication be chimerical. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This account of the bank of Amsterdam, however, it will appear hereafter, is in a great measure chimerical. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Such a speculation, can, at worst, be regarded but as a new Utopia, less amusing, certainly, but no more useless and chimerical than the old one. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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