chimerical

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   produced by a wildly fanciful imagination

   Their Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists.

2. 2
   adj

   Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.

   "You are the most charming person in the world. You are invested with a perfect halo of delight," exclaimed Henrietta. "Miss Churchill has some chimerical notion of honour in her head, but that is over now; your information does not leave a single obstacle in the way of the most perfect happiness that ever wound up a fairy tale...

3. 3
   adj

   being or relating to or like a chimera

4. 4
   adj

   Of or pertaining to a chimera.

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

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