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chimerical

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As an adjective, chimerical means of or pertaining to a chimera.

Meanings of chimerical

6 meanings

adjective

  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. geneticsResulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.

  5. visionof a perceived colorImpossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image.

  6. Being or relating to or like a chimera

    “his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists”

    Similar: chimeric, chimeral

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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adjective: being or relating to or like a chimera
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