chimerical

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to a chimera.
  2. Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
    — a chimerical goal
  3. Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
    — "You are the most charming person in the world. You are invested with a perfect halo of delight," exclaimed Henrietta. "Miss Churchill has some chimerical notion of honour in her head, but that is over now; your information does not leave a single obstacle in the way of the most perfect happiness that ever wound up a fairy tale...
  4. Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
  5. 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.

词形变化

more chimerical comparative most chimerical superlative chimaerical alternative chimærical alternative

词汇关系

下位词
hyperbolic self-luminous stygian
衍生词
chimerically

词源

From chimera, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”). This term entered English in or around 1638.
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