Synonyms for chimerical

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ki-mer-i-kuhl or ki-mer-ik; -meer-, kahy-

Phonetic Transcription : kɪˈmɛr ɪ kəl or kɪˈmɛr ɪk; -ˈmɪər-, kaɪ-

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Définition of chimerical

Origin : 1630s, from chimera + -ical. Related: Chimeric (1650s).

adj fabulous

Example sentences :

Barring the chimerical, that any girl may consider and most girls do, she was straight as a string.
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

Judging by past experience in California this is no chimerical conception.
Extract from : « Walnut Growing in Oregon » by Various

But while as matter of logic it is inconclusive, as matter of fact it is chimerical.
Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall

With many, and to many, these things are but as dreams; they are chimerical.
Extract from : « The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 » by Joseph Wild

To keep it from his daughter till she should be stronger, seemed to him chimerical, impossible.
Extract from : « A Simpleton » by Charles Reade

The action of a First Cause is useless and irrational—it is chimerical!
Extract from : « Public School Education » by Michael Mller

But if Dr. Carver was chimerical, he was at least courageous in his persistence.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 » by Various

The absorption theory as applied to America is, it seems to me, chimerical.
Extract from : « The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner » by Charles Dudley Warner

The phaenomenon may be real, though my explication be chimerical.
Extract from : « A Treatise of Human Nature » by David Hume

Both these parts are essential, nor is the distinction vain and chimerical.
Extract from : « A Treatise of Human Nature » by David Hume

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