Quixotic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality.
  • adj. Capricious; impulsive: "At worst his scruples must have been quixotic, not malicious” ( Louis Auchincloss).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Possessing or acting with the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality.
  • adj. Impulsive.
  • adj. Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; prone to pursue unrealizable goals; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. See also quixotism.
  • adj. Like the deeds of Don Quixote; ridiculously impractical; unachievable; extravagantly romantic; doomed to failure.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or resembling Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes's celebrated romance of that name; hence, extravagantly or absurdly romantic; striving for an unattainable or impracticable ideal; characterized by futile self-devotion; visionary.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
    • Equivalent
    impractical   
    Variant
    quixotism   
    Form
    quixotically   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unachievable    visionary   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    antibiotic    aquatic    astronautic    chaotic    despotic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chimerical    impracticable    unstatesmanlike    suicidal    pointless   
     
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