'Chimera' definitions:
Definition of 'Chimera'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Chimera'
From: GCIDE
- Chimera \Chime"ra\, n.; pl. Chimeras. [L. chimaera a chimera (in sense 1), Gr. ? a she-goat, a chimera, fr. ? he-goat; cf. Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.]
- 1. (Myth.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. "Dire chimeras and enchanted isles." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'chimera'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airy hope,
- airy nothing,
- apparition,
- autism,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- daydream,
- deception,
- delirium,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- eidolon,
- false belief,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- golden dream,
- hallucination,
- idle fancy,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mosaic,
- myth,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- pipe,
- pipe dream,
- pomato,
- potomato,
- quixotic ideal,
- rainbow,
- romance,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- sick fancy,
- thick-coming fancies,
- topato,
- trick,
- trip,
- unreal hope,
- utopia,
- vapor,
- vision,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- wrong impression