chimerical.

1. Existing chiefly in imagination or so fanciful that realization is unlikely.

2. Composed of cell populations from different genetic origins within one organism.

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Words that belong together

• chimerical hope
• chimerical scheme

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He pursued a chimerical hope that the sea would return what it had taken.

The chimerical scheme required every stranger to keep the same secret.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more chimerical; superlative most chimerical where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.