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Quixotic
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- 1 Resembling or characteristic of the Spanish chivalric hero Don Quixote; possessed with or resulting from the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality.
"Olivier, as you know, was quixotic, and would not permit a secret service and spies."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of quixotic. alt-of
"Don Quixote undertook to redress the bodily wrongs of the world, but the redressment of mental vagaries would be an enterprise more than Quixotic."
- 3 Overly optimistic and moralistic.
- 4 Exceedingly idealistic.
"Call it a brain freeze, another 'Aleppo moment,' or a mere campaign stumble, but Gary Johnson has stumbled again in his quixotic presidential campaign."
- 1 not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic wordnet
- 1 A quixotic person or sentiment. rare
"The cultural quixotics attribute the change to inscrutable "cultural factors," which is tantamount to abandoning altogether the search for explanation."
Etymology
Derived from Spanish Quixote, the surname of Don Quixote, the title character in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, + -ic.
Derived from Spanish Quixote, the surname of Don Quixote, the title character in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, + -ic.
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