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Definition: Chimerical |
ChimericalAdjective1. Being or relating to or like a chimera; "his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Doublas Bush. 2. Produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chimerical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
Synonyms: ChimericalSynonyms: chimeral (adj), chimeric (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chimerical |
| English words defined with "chimerical": Air-built ♦ Laputan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chimerical": Zebra. (references) |
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 | Amusing; arbitrary; capricious; chancy; chimerical; comical; curious; dicey; droll; eccentric; erratic; fanciful; fantastic; flaky; freakish; funny; quaint; unertain; wagish; playful; animated; blithe; bouncy; cheerful; cheery; effervescent; elastic; fanc. |
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| Author | Quotation |
James Thomson | That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He fell again from chimerical terrors into real terrors |
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| "Chimerical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Chimerical" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
chimerical | 10 |
chimerical publication | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "chimerical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fantastik (bizarre, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical). (various references) | |
Arabic | وهمي (airy, airy fairy, astral, delusive, delusory, dummy, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, phantom, putative, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary), خيالي (aerial, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, ideal, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary), الميال إلى المشاريع الخيالية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нереален (aerial, aeriform, fanciful, ideal, insubstantial, metaphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, vaporous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 虚构 (Chimeric, fictional, fictive, imaginary). (various references) | |
Czech | přízraèný (eerie, eery, visionary). (various references) | |
Dutch | ingebeeld, hersenschimmig. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĥimera. (various references) | |
French | chimérique. (various references) | |
German | phantastische (quixotically). (various references) | |
Greek | χιμαιρικόσ (utopian). (various references) | |
Hungarian | képzeletbeli (fancy, ideal, imaginary, insubstantial, notional, phantom, visionary). (various references) | |
Italian | chimerico. (various references) | |
Korean | 공상 (Chimeric, Fancier, Fancies, Fancy, Fancying). (various references) | |
Manx | far-smooinaghtagh (imaginary). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imericalchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quimérico (insubstantial, unreal, visional). (various references) | |
Romanian | himeric (absurd, chimeric, fantastic, fantastical, vaporous, wildcat). (various references) | |
Russian | химерический. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nestvaran (aeriform, fanciful, unreal), nepostojeći (nonexistent). (various references) | |
Spanish | hueco (airy-fairy, alcove, cave, cavity, concave, conceited, empty, fantastic, frivolous, gap, hole, hollow, of fantasy, pocket, recess, vain, void, well). (various references) | |
Swedish | inbillad (fancied, fanciful, ideal, imaginary, insubstantial, phantom, would be), fantasifull (fanciful, fancy, imaginative, pregnant). (various references) | |
Turkish | saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), hayali (aerial, airy, cardboard box, delusive, Faerie, faery, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, insubstantial, phantasmal, spectral, unreal, visionary), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), asılsız (baseless, captious, delusive, footless, groundless, ill founded, insubstantial, out of whole cloth, rootless, tinsel, unfounded, ungrounded, untruthful, without any foundation, without foundation). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | химерний (arabesque, artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, baroque, conceited, fanciful, freakish, notional, whimsical), фантастичний (airy, arabesque, crackpot, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, moonshiny, mythic, mythical, romantic). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hão huyền (illusory, phanstasmal, phantasmic, romantic, visionary), ảo tưởng (fallacy, ignis fatuus, phantasm, visional). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chimerical": chimerically. (additional references) | |
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"Chimerical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chandrika, chemerical, chimercial. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "chimerical" (pronounced 'Chi*mer"ic*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-i-i-l-m-r" | |
-1 letter: chimaeric. | |
-2 letters: alchemic, chemical, chimeric. | |
-3 letters: caliche, ceramic, chalice, charlie, chimera, claimer, macchie, miracle, racemic, ramilie, reclaim. | |
-4 letters: achier, archil, cahier, calmer, carcel, celiac, chemic, chicer, chicle, chimar, chimer, chimla, chiral, cicale, cilice, circle, cleric, cliche, eclair, haemic, hailer, heliac, hermai, hiemal, icicle, lacier, limier, mailer, malice, marcel, remail. | |
-5 letters: acmic, aimer, almeh, amice, amici. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-i-i-l-m-r" | |
+2 letters: agrichemical, chimerically, heroicomical. | |
+3 letters: agrichemicals, microcephalic, radiochemical. | |
+4 letters: microcephalics, microcephalies, microspherical. | |
+5 letters: radiochemically. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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