Chimerical vs Delusive - What's the difference?
chimerical | delusive | Synonyms |
Of or pertaining to a chimera.
Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
* 1877 ,
Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
Producing delusions.
Delusional.
Inappropriate to reality; forming part of a delusion.
* 1849 , Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
* {{quote-Don Quixote, passage=I opened my eyes, I rubbed them, and found I was not asleep but thoroughly awake. Nevertheless, I felt my head and breast to satisfy myself whether it was I myself who was there or some empty delusive phantom; but touch, feeling, the collected thoughts that passed through my mind, all convinced me that I was the same then and there that I am this moment.
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As adjectives the difference between chimerical and delusive
is that chimerical is of or pertaining to a chimera while delusive is producing delusions.chimerical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. 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."
- a chimerical goal
Derived terms
* chimericallydelusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It seemed calculated to suggest ideas she had no intention to suggest — ideas delusive and disturbing.