chimerical

Meaning

1. Of or pertaining to a chimera.
2. Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
3. Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
4. Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
5. Impossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image.

Synonyms

chimeric

imaginary

chimeral

impossible

fictitious

fantastic

imaginative

fanciful

mythologic

unfounded

unrealizable

utopian

fictional

Translations

chimérique

chimerico

hersenschimmig

quimérico

fantástico

quimérico

hayali

ingebeeld

χιμαιρικός

schimärisch

phantastische

وهمي

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɪˈmɛɹɪkəl/

Etymology

From chimera, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”). This term entered English in or around 1638.