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Chimerical

[ky-MAIR-ih-kul]

(adjective) Wildly unrealistic or fanciful; existing only in the imagination and having no basis in reality.

Critics called the startup's plan to colonize Mars within five years chimerical — bold in vision, impossible in practice.

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