Word Meanings - CHIMERA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as,

Additional info about word: CHIMERA

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. 2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHIMERA)

• Fallacy
• Sophistry
• error
• blunder
• misconception
• bugbear
• fiction
• delusion
• chimera

Related words: (words related to CHIMERA)

• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• BLUNDERING
  Characterized by blunders.
• BLUNDERINGLY
  In a blundering manner.
• BUGBEAR
  See A
• FICTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
• BLUNDERBUSS
  to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus 1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. 2. A stupid, blundering fellow.
• BLUNDER
  1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift. 2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in
• CHIMERA
  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. 2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as,
• DELUSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
• DELUSION
  1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. Pope. 2. The state of being deluded or misled. 3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone.
• MISCONCEPTION
  Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding. Harvey.
• SOPHISTRY
  1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. 2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense
• FALLACY
  An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism. Syn. -- Deception; deceit; mistake. -- Fallacy, Sophistry. A fallacy is an argument which professes to be decisive,
• ERROR
  The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. The difference between the observed value
• ERRORIST
  One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• TERRORISM
  The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. Jefferson.
• NIGHT TERRORS
  A sudden awkening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution.
• BUGABOO; BUGBEAR
  Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright ye." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear