Chimerical

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chimerical \Chi*mer"ic*al\, a.
     Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly
     conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except
     in thought; as, chimerical projects.
  
     Syn: Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain;


          deceitful; delusive.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chimerical
       adj 1: being or relating to or like a chimera; "his Utopia is not
              as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement
              on what already exists"- Doublas Bush [syn: {chimeric},
               {chimeral}]
       2: produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is
          not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement
          on what already exists"- Douglas Bush

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "chimerical":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, absurd, aerial, air-built, airy, ambitious,
     apparent, apparitional, autistic, chimeric, cloud-born,
     cloud-built, cloud-woven, deceptive, delusional, delusionary,
     delusive, delusory, dereistic, dreamlike, dreamy, erroneous,
     ethereal, fabulous, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic,
     fatuitous, fatuous, fictional, fictive, gaseous, gossamery,
     illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading,
     mythical, ostensible, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom,
     phantomlike, preposterous, pretentious, rarefied, seeming,
     self-deceptive, self-deluding, shadowy, specious, spectral,
     spirituous, subtile, subtle, supposititious, tenuous, unactual,
     unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vaporous, vapory,
     visionary, windy