chimeric

Thân thiện

His scientific proposal seemed chimeric at first.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Existing only as a product of unchecked imagination; wildly fanciful or highly unrealistic. This is the most common meaning, describing an idea, plan, or hope that is so improbable it is considered impossible or illusory. 2. Relating to or resembling a chimera. In a more literal sense, it can describe something that is a fantastic or grotesque combination of disparate elements, much like the mythical creature.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • His plan for a perpetual motion machine was dismissed as a chimeric fantasy by the scientific community.
  • The artist's chimeric sculpture combined parts of a lion, a goat, and a serpent.
  • Pursuing that business opportunity would be chimeric; the market simply doesn't exist yet.

Advanced Usage

• In Biology/Genetics: While the primary general meaning is "fanciful," in specialized scientific contexts, the related term "chimeric" is used literally to describe an organism, organ, or molecule containing cells or DNA from two or more distinct sources (e.g., a antibody).
  • The researchers developed a chimeric protein to study its function.

Variants and Related Words

• Chimera (n): 1. A fire-breathing monster in Greek mythology composed of parts of a lion, a goat, and a serpent. 2. A thing that is hoped or wished for but is illusory or impossible to achieve. 3. (Biology) An organism containing genetically distinct tissues.
• Chimerical (adj): A less common variant with the same meaning as "chimeric."
• Chimerism (n): (Biology) The state of being a genetic chimera.

Synonyms

• Fanciful: Over-imaginative and unrealistic.
• Illusory: Based on illusion; not real.
• Quixotic: Exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.
• Utopian: Modeled on or aiming for a state of perfection, especially in laws, government, and social conditions, that is unrealistic.
• Fantastical: Strange and wonderful, like something from a fantasy.

Antonyms

• Realistic: Having a sensible and practical idea of what can be achieved or expected.
• Practical: Of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas.
• Feasible: Possible to do easily or conveniently.
• Viable: Capable of working successfully; feasible.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. being or relating to or like a chimera
   • his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists- Douglas Bush

Từ đồng nghĩa

• chimerical
• chimeral