chimerical.
Of or pertaining to a chimera.
Meaning & usage
Of or pertaining to a chimera.
Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
a chimerical goal
Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
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.
Where this word comes from
From chimera, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”). This term entered English in or around 1638.
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