quixotic
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ɪk adjective
1.
( sometimes initial capital letter ) resembling or befitting Don Quixote.
2.
extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
3.
impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.
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| —adj | |
| preoccupied with an unrealistically optimistic or chivalrous approach to life; impractically idealistic | |
| [C18: after | |
| quix'otically | |
| —adv | |
| quixotism | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
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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Example sentences
Page is a reflexive champion of big-sometimes quixotic-ideas.
It's probably a quixotic effort, but it is nevertheless touchingly valiant.
Her description of the course of her condition is both delightfully quixotic and terribly sad.
Going to war against an ideology is quixotic.
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