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1.
(sometimes initial capital letter
) resembling or befitting Don Quixote.
) resembling or befitting Don Quixote.2.
extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
3.
impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.
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Quixotic
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| shortness of time or duration, brief; the quality of expressing much in few words or terseness |
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Example Sentences
- Going to war against an ideology is quixotic.
- She is a quixotic mixture of illusion and reality.
- But his core modus operandi - endowing research into the reconciliation of science and religion - seems quixotic.
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quixotic
"extravagantly chivalrous," 1791, from Don Quixote, romantic, impractical hero of Cervantes' satirical novel "Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1605). His name lit. means "thigh," also "a cuisse" (a piece of armor for the thigh), in Mod.Sp. quijote, from L. coxa "hip."
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