GRE vocabulary

Chimerical

Existing only as a product of unchecked imagination; fanciful; visionary; wild; fantastic.

Example

"His chimerical plans for a perpetually running engine never moved beyond the drawing board."

From French chimérique, from Latin chimaera, from Greek chimaira 'fabled monster with a lion's head, goat's body, and serpent's tail'.

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