chimerical
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɪˈmɛɹɪkəl/
chimerical
- Of or pertaining to a chimera.
- Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
- "Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
- a chimerical goal
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
- Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
- Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
- French: chimérique
- German: Chimäre
- German: chimärenhaft
- Russian: химери́чный
- German: chimärisch, wunderhaft
- Russian: химе́рный
- French: chimérique
- Italian: chimerico
- Portuguese: quimérico
- Russian: химе́рный
- Spanish: quimérico
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