different between imaginative vs chimerical

English

Etymology

From Middle English ymagynatif, from Middle French imaginatif, from Medieval Latin im?gin?t?vus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæd???n?t?v/, /-?n?t?v/, /??mæd??n?t?v/
• Hyphenation: ima?gi?na?tive

Adjective

imaginative (comparative more imaginative, superlative most imaginative)

1. Having a lively or creative imagination.
2. Tending to be fanciful or inventive.
3. False or imagined.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ma.?i.na.tiv/
• Homophone: imaginatives

Adjective

imaginative

1. feminine singular of imaginatif

Latin

Adjective

im?gin?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of im?gin?t?vus

English

Alternative forms

• chimaerical, chimærical

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m???k?l/

Adjective

chimerical (comparative more chimerical, superlative most chimerical)

1. Of or pertaining to a chimera.
2. Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
   • 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

     "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

3. Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
4. Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.

Derived terms

• chimerically

Translations

Anagrams

• cimeliarch