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chimerical

adjective

variants: also chimeric

Synonyms and Antonyms of chimerical

not real and existing only in the imagination

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

Synonyms of chimerical

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

Words Related to chimerical

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 of chimerical

authentic, genuine, true

factual, verifiable, verified

believable, convincing, realistic

corporeal, material, physical, solid, substantial

palpable, tangible

Antonyms of chimerical

actual, existent, existing, real

Synonym Discussion of chimerical

imaginary, fanciful, visionary, fantastic, chimerical, quixotic mean unreal or unbelievable. imaginary applies to something which is fictitious and purely the product of one's imagination.

- an imaginary desert isle

fanciful suggests the free play of the imagination.

- a teller of fanciful stories

visionary stresses impracticality or incapability of realization.

- visionary schemes

fantastic implies incredibility or strangeness beyond belief.

- a fantastic world inhabited by monsters

chimerical combines the implication of visionary and fantastic.

- chimerical dreams of future progress

quixotic implies a devotion to romantic or chivalrous ideals unrestrained by ordinary prudence and common sense.

- a quixotic crusade

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