From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chimerical \Chi*mer"ic*al\, adjective Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
Syn: Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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"- Doublas Bush [syn: {chimeric}, {chimeral}]
2: produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "chimerical": Barmecidal, Barmecide, absurd, aerial, air-built, airy, ambitious, apparent, apparitional, autistic, chimeric, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dreamlike, dreamy, erroneous, ethereal, fabulous, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, fictional, fictive, gaseous, gossamery, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mythical, ostensible, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phantomlike, preposterous, pretentious, rarefied, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, shadowy, specious, spectral, spirituous, subtile, subtle, supposititious, tenuous, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vaporous, vapory, visionary, windy
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