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Quixotic (disambiguation)

Quixotic         
·adj Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded.
quixotic         
a.
Visionary, imaginary, wild, mad, fanciful, freakish, Utopian, chimerical, fantastic, fantastical, absurdly romantic.
quixotic         
[kw?k's?t?k]
¦ adjective impractically idealistic or fanciful.
Derivatives
quixotically adverb
quixotism 'kw?ks?t?z(?)m noun
quixotry 'kw?ks?tri noun
Origin
C18: from the name of Don Quixote, the hero of a chivalric romance by the Spanish writer Cervantes (1547-1616), + -ic.

Wikipedia

Quixotic

Quixotic may refer to:

  • Quixotism, deriving from the novel Don Quixote
  • Quixotic (album), an album by Martina Topley-Bird
  • Quix*o*tic, a Washington D.C.–based rock band
Examples of use of Quixotic
1. Cheney‘s quixotic campaign to exempt the CIA from Sen.
2. Tony Blair must pursue his goals with less quixotic aggression.
3. Huckabee is no longer considered a long–shot candidate running a quixotic campaign.
4. It is no longer an oxymoron or a quixotic in–joke.
5. An AP colleague, Merrill Hartson, described Moleon as something of a quixotic figure in Washington.