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QUIXOTIC definition: 1. having or showing ideas that are different and unusual but not practical or likely to succeed…. Learn more.
The meaning of QUIXOTIC is foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; especially : marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action. How to use quixotic in a sentence.
Quixotism (/ kwɪkˈsɒtɪzəm / or / kiːˈhoʊtɪzəm /; adj. quixotic) is impracticality in pursuit of ideals, especially those ideals manifested by rash, lofty and romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action. [1] It also serves to describe an idealism without regard to practicality.
QUIXOTIC meaning: 1. having or showing ideas that are different and unusual but not practical or likely to succeed…. Learn more.
Use quixotic for someone or something that is romantic and unrealistic, or possessed by almost impossible hopes. Your quixotic task is easy to understand, if difficult to achieve: establish world peace.
adjective. If you describe someone's ideas or plans as quixotic, you mean that they are imaginative or hopeful but unrealistic. [formal] He has always lived his life by a hopelessly quixotic code of honour. Synonyms: unrealistic, idealistic, romantic, absurd More Synonyms of quixotic. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Quixotic definition: extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.. See examples of QUIXOTIC used in a sentence.
adj. 1. Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality. 2. Capricious; impulsive: "At worst his scruples must have been quixotic, not malicious" (Louis Auchincloss). [From English Quixote, a visionary, after Don Quixote, , hero of a romance by Miguel de Cervantes.]
Definition of quixotic adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
3 days ago · quixotic (comparative more quixotic, superlative most quixotic) 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; exceedingly idealistic.
