chimera
/ky-MEER-uh/nounan illusion or impossible dream; a mythical hybrid monster
“Perfect forecasting is a chimera the industry keeps chasing.”
- Synonyms
- illusion, fantasy, pipe dream
- Antonyms
- reality
- Memory hook
- chimera: lion-goat-serpent — stitched-together impossibility.
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