chimericaladj.
/kʌɪˈmɛrɪkəl//kɪˈmɛrɪkəl/ 1. Of the nature of a chimera; vainly or fantastically conceived, imaginary, fanciful, visionary.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [adjective] > unreal or not real
unreal1605
insubstantiala1616
chimerical1638
chimeric1655
chimerian1682
negational1827
unactual1871
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective] > of fanciful nature
feigned1526
fantasticala1546
conceited1588
capricious1594
fanatical1598
vaporous1605
chimerical1638
chimeric1655
lymphatical1678
chimerian1682
wild goose1770
visionary1777
whimmy1785
whimming1787
Laputan1866
viewy1866
Alice1872
Alice-in-Wonderland1874
fantasied1882
Alician1898
blue-sky1920
pie in the sky1930
rocambolesque1935
1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem ii. 9 in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles The fire of Purgatory is rightly termed..Chymericall, because a meere fiction.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 69. ⁋1 He can..distinguish between Chimærical and Practical Politicks.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1763 I. 212 [Johnson:] Sir, this book..is a pretty essay..though much of it is chimerical.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 178 The distant and chimerical projects of Hamilcar.
2. Prone to entertain chimeras; filled with idle fancies and wild dreams; whimsical, fanciful.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective]
dreaminga1500
fantasied1590
chimerizing1604
vaporous1605
imaginative1626
whimsy1637
airy1643
whimmed1654
chimerical1660
figmentitious1660
notional1664
visionary1712
viewy1848
Barriesque1894
1660 Char. Italy 10 Hammer'd in the impure mint of his own Chymærical Pericranium.
1719 Free-thinker No. 95. 2 She is somewhat too scrupulous, if not a little Chimerical.
1854 A. R. Scoble tr. Guizot Oliver Cromwell i. 4 The most chimerical of the non-military republicans.
Derivatives
chiˈmerically adv. in a chimerical way, ‘vainly, wildly, fantastically’, in Bailey (fol.) 1731–6, Johnson, and modern dictionaries.
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chiˈmericalness n. rare chimerical quality, ‘imaginariness, whimsicalness’ (Bailey (fol.) 1731–6.)Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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