Synonyms of chimera

chimera

noun

kī-ˈmir-ə 

as in illusion

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

a monster in the closet would not have been the first chimera that the boy had seen in his mind's eye

Synonyms & Similar Words

• illusion
• dream
• fantasy
• daydream
• vision
• idea
• delusion
• phantasm
• mirage
• castle in the air
• nightmare
• hallucination
• castle in Spain
• figment
• unreality
• pipe dream
• conceit
• imaging
• nonentity
• fiction
• concoction
• ignis fatuus
• fabrication
• fancy
• utopia
• brainchild
• visualization
• cloudland
• fable
• envisaging
• invention
• will-o'-the-wisp
• cloud-cuckoo-land
• Shangri-la
• daymare

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fact
• reality
• actuality

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of chimera

Rather than a somewhat normal for Hollywood bakeoff, Paramount plans to kind of smush the two scripts together into one IP chimera. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026

Look behind that curtain and see that the great and powerful Oz is a chimera. — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026

The Animal Legal Defense Fund, an animal advocacy organization, argued that if such chimeras gained humanlike awareness, they should be treated as human research subjects. — Monika Piotrowska, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025

The chimera of a two-state solution still has widespread backing within Washington’s traditional foreign policy establishment. — Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025

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