Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Chimerical

chim-er-ic-al (k-mr-kl, -mîr-, k-)

adjective
1. Unbelievably fancy, like so fabulous that you have to be dreaming!
The dresser crab has a chimerical sense of fashion.

Synonyms: awesome, fabulous, fanciful, imaginary, unreal, utopian, visionary, wild.

* Chimerical is one of those words that really shows the evolution of our language. Its root lies with the chimera, a mythical she-beast from Greek mythology. It went on to mean fanciful, as in out of one's imagination, until it became a synonym for absolutely fabulous.

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