chimerical

chi·me·ri·cal

adjective \kī-ˈmer-i-kəl, kə-, -ˈmir-\

Definition of CHIMERICAL

1

: existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary or improbable

2

: given to fantastic schemes

— chi·me·ri·cal·ly \-i-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

Variants of CHIMERICAL

chi·me·ri·cal also chi·me·ric \-ik\

Examples of CHIMERICAL

1. <for the time being, interplanetary travel remains a chimerical feature of life in the 21st century>

Origin of CHIMERICAL

chimera

First Known Use: 1638

Related to CHIMERICAL

Synonyms

imaginary (also chimeric), fabulous, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic (also fantastical), fictional, fictitious, ideal, imaginal, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, mythical (or mythic), notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, pretend, unreal, visonary

Antonyms

actual, existent, existing, real

Related Words

fabled, legendary, romantic; abstract, hypothetical, theoretical (also theoretic); unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely; conceived, envisaged, envisioned, pictured, visualized; daydreamlike, deceptive, delusional, delusive, hallucinatory, illusory, phantasmagoric (or phantasmagorical); concocted, fabricated, feigned, fictive; inexistent, nonexistent

Near Antonyms

authentic, genuine, true; factual, verifiable, verified; believable, convincing, realistic; corporeal, material, physical, solid, substantial; palpable, tangible

See Synonym Discussion at imaginary

Rhymes with CHIMERICAL

hysterical, numerical