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chimerical.

Of or pertaining to a chimera.

10 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/kɪˈmɛɹɪkəl//kaɪ-/
  1. Of or pertaining to a chimera.

  2. Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).

    a chimerical goal
  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.

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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