Crossword-Solution: CHIMERICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chimerical | a. | Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. |
We have 60 clues for the answer “CHIMERICAL”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Laputan | 3 answers |
| fictive | 32 answers |
| Nonsensical | 32 answers |
| mythological | 36 answers |
| Notional | 37 answers |
| Nonexistent. | 39 answers |
| byronic | 40 answers |
| historic | 41 answers |
| Idyllic | 42 answers |
| Imagined | 42 answers |
| conjectural | 45 answers |
| fabled | 45 answers |
| Made up | 47 answers |
| Believed | 48 answers |
| Fictional. | 49 answers |
| suppositious | 49 answers |
| Handed down | 50 answers |
| mythical | 50 answers |
| Imaginative | 51 answers |
| Historical ___ | 52 answers |
| impressible | 52 answers |
| fancied | 53 answers |
| dreamy | 55 answers |
| Fictitious | 56 answers |
| Legendary | 57 answers |
| inventive | 59 answers |
| Illusory | 59 answers |
| Extravagant | 60 answers |
| Utopian | 61 answers |
| Quixotic | 61 answers |
| supposed | 64 answers |
| immortal | 66 answers |
| impracticable | 67 answers |
| fabricated | 67 answers |
| Fabulous | 68 answers |
| renowned | 69 answers |
| Sentimental | 69 answers |
| famed | 70 answers |
| Celebrated | 70 answers |
| Impractical | 70 answers |
| Tradition-al | 72 answers |
| Hypothetical | 72 answers |
| Famous ___ | 73 answers |
| Assumed | 73 answers |
| Creative | 73 answers |
| Theoretical | 73 answers |
| Romantic | 74 answers |
| unreal | 75 answers |
| Fanciful | 76 answers |
| Ideal | 77 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with CHIMERICAL (5)
One part of the mysterious existence of Captain Nemo had been unveiled; and, if his identity had not been recognised, at least, the nations united against him were no longer hunting a chimerical creature, but a man who had vowed a deadly hatred against them.
The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese.” “And how?” I asked involuntarily.
The legists, by the very nature of their studies and in spite of their obstinate prejudices, have been led irresistibly to suspect that the absolute in the science of law is not as chimerical as is commonly supposed; and this suspicion arose from their comparison of the various relations which legislators have been called upon to regulate.
And yet this mad, chimerical creature can take no thought of his last end, lives as though he were eternal, plunges with his vulnerable body into the shock of war, and daily affronts death with unconcern.
The ends for which they give away their priceless youth, for all they know, may be chimerical or hurtful; the glory and riches they expect may never come, or may find them indifferent; and they and the world they inhabit are so inconsiderable that the mind freezes at the thought.
Quotes with CHIMERICAL (3)
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
Chimerical words, the words were written, Some are wasted; some are still on the page, Tattered words, the words were written, Some are young, some are aged, Gloomy words, the words were written, Some are unspoken, some are told, Words were hurt, though they can heal, Words are breathless, though can feel, Words won hearts, words shattered hearts, Words lost battles, words won wars, Wars within, words had scars.
They say I am a reformer. They say wrong: for I have long since given up any such chimerical idea, as that of being able to make men happier who are wicked and miserable by prescription. Withdrawing, therefore, from any such Utopian and hopeless attempt, I believed the best thing I could do was, to relieve, where I could, individual distress, and to lighten the chains that villany often imposes on simplicity under the name of law. In this I have done some good, and what else ought a man to do on this earth?
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2002).