Thesaurus / chimerical

chimerical

How to use chimerical in a sentence

What is called magic is not a vain and chimerical art, as the Stoics and Epicureans pretend.

There is, at least, no country in Europe in which servility has not invented and vanity received genealogies yet more chimerical.

The idea originally entertained of turning part of the Vailima estate into a profitable plantation turned out chimerical.

I would not barter one hour of such thoughts—chimerical though they may be—for ten years of this vapid, surface life.

ALONEMARION HARLAND

A false religion must necessarily bestow upon those who practise it only a false, chimerical, and transient utility.

LETTERS TO EUGENIAPAUL HENRI THIRY HOLBACH

But the chief offenders in defying Napoleon's chimerical policy were the Dutch and Hanseatic cities.

Occasionally, too, he painted landscapes—the chimerical, vague creations of a man who had lived but little in the open air.

Judging by past experience in California this is no chimerical conception.

His plans of conquest were boundless, and perhaps chimerical.

Let it not be said, that this power attributed to the English Parliament is chimerical.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985