Usually means: Imaginary; fabricated from disparate elements.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. chimerical: Merriam-Webster
  2. chimerical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chimerical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chimerical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chimerical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chimerical, chimerical: Wordnik
  7. chimerical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chimerical: Wiktionary
  9. chimerical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chimerical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chimerical: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chimerical, chimerical: Dictionary.com
  13. Chimerical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. chimerical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. chimerical: Rhymezone
  16. Chimerical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. chimerical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. chimerical: FreeDictionary.org
  19. chimerical: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. chimerical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. chimerical: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. chimerical: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chimerical: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chimerical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chimerical: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. chimerical: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chimerical: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chimerical: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chimerical)

adjective:  Of or pertaining to a chimera.
adjective:  Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
adjective:  Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
adjective:  (genetics) Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
adjective:  (vision, of a perceived color) Impossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image.

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