Quixotic means nobly idealistic, and hopelessly impractical. A quixotic quest, quixotic idealism, faintly quixotic.
It is affectionate and pitying at once, since a quixotic scheme deserves admiration and will not work. It comes from Don Quixote, who tilted at windmills believing them giants, and it is said as kwik-sotic.
1adjectivequixoticNobly idealistic, and hopelessly impractical.
“She made a quixotic attempt to save the old cinema, knowing she had almost no money.”
quixotic is a quality.
From Don Quixote, the hero of the novel by Cervantes, who mistook windmills for giants.
Spanish
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English, today
quixotic
Derived from Spanish Quixote, the surname of Don Quixote, the title character in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, -ic.
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