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chimerical

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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.
chimerical
Adjective
wildly fanciful or imaginary
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.chimerical - 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, chimeric
2.chimerical - produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush
unrealistic - not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels"


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Ferguson passed for a purely chimerical personage of the Barnum stamp, who, after having gone through the United States, proposed to "do" the British Isles.
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The notion generally received is, that the coral found in such quantities at the bottom of the sea might communicate this colour to the water: an account merely chimerical.
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It was past a question now that Faria was not a lunatic, and the way in which he had achieved the discovery, which had given rise to the suspicion of his madness, increased Edmond's admiration of him; but at the same time Dantes could not believe that the deposit, supposing it had ever existed, still existed; and though he considered the treasure as by no means chimerical, he yet believed it was no longer there.
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