chimerical

/'tʃimnikæp/

Thân thiện

The artist painted a chimerical creature with the head of a lion and the wings of an eagle.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Imaginary, fanciful, or wildly improbable: Describes something that exists only in the imagination, is highly unrealistic, or is the product of a wildly fanciful mind.
   • Relating to or resembling a chimera: Describes something that is a fantastic, often monstrous, creation of the imagination, pieced together from incongruous parts.

Usage and Examples

• As an adjective describing an unrealistic idea or plan:

  • His plan to build a city on Mars by next year is utterly chimerical.
  • The promise of instant wealth turned out to be a chimerical dream.

• As an adjective describing something fantastical or mythical:

  • The artist drew chimerical beasts with the heads of eagles and bodies of lions.
  • The ancient map was decorated with chimerical creatures from legend.

Advanced Usage

• "Chimerical scheme": A plan or project that is fantastically visionary or impractical.

  • The inventor was known for his brilliant but often chimerical schemes.

• "Chimerical hope": A hope or aspiration that is based on illusion rather than reality.

  • Holding onto the chimerical hope of his return, she waited for years.

Variants and Related Words

• Chimera (n):

  • (Greek Mythology) A fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
  • An illusion or fabrication of the mind; an unrealizable dream.

• Chimerically (adv): In a chimerical manner.

  • He chimerically believed he could change the world overnight.

Synonyms

• Fanciful: Over-imaginative and unrealistic.
• Illusory: Based on illusion; not real.
• Fantastic: Extraordinarily good or attractive, but also imaginative or fanciful.
• Quixotic: Exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.
• Visionary (when implying impracticality): Having original or far-reaching ideas, especially ones that are not practical.

Antonyms

• Realistic: Having a sensible and practical idea of what can be achieved.
• 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.
• Sensible: Chosen in accordance with wisdom or prudence; likely to be of benefit.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "A chimerical notion": A completely fanciful or absurd idea.
  • The idea that money grows on trees is a chimerical notion for adults.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. produced by a wildly fanciful imagination
   • his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists- Douglas Bush
2. 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

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