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Chimeric

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chi·mer·i·cal  (k-mr-kl, -mîr-, k-) also chi·mer·ic (-mrk, -mîr-)
adj.
1. Created by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; highly improbable.
2. Given to unrealistic fantasies; fanciful.
3. often chimeric Of, related to, or being a chimera.
chi·meri·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.chimeric - being or relating to or like a chimera; "his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush
chimeral, chimerical
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Phlipote never again opened her lips regarding the vague love which for a moment had flowered in her heart: only sometimes, a cloud of reverie veiled her eyes, which seemed to seek sadly, beyond the circle of her slow, calm life, a brilliant but chimeric image visible for her alone.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
 
 
 
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