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(quixotic - from Don Quixote, related to a noble or idealistic, yet impractical pursuit)

Many readers are attracted to quixotic love stories, rather than realistic romance.

The parish priest began a quixotic attempt to preserve the crumbling old church.

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First of all, a pronounciation guide: Don Quixote = Don Key hoe" tay' is the person, and the adjective is 'quixotic', NOT key hoe tic, but, oddly: quick sot" ic'. Nobody knows why. Don Quixote, briefly, was a knight just at the end of the Middle Ages, would attack (tilt at) windmills (the huge old Dutch wooden kind) on his horse, believing this was the noble thing to do. Strangely, this futile, pointless, dangerous and painful job was 'interpreted' by literary critique, to this very day, as somehow tragically noble. So, if somebody tells you you are 'quixotic' or, far less often, 'a Quixote', they are not telling you that you are bonkers, but that you are indeed a hapless dimwit, still somehow, nonetheless, spiritually genteel.

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But to close options in advance is rather quixotic

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The quixotic little boy wanted his parents to buy him a mansion.

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Marc spent four years in an quixotic struggle to block construction of a high way through his neighborhood .

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I won't deny that I've been influenced by the quixotic love stories. There should be books about rational and more realistic romance.

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The quixotic knights had no real combat experience.

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What is the sentence of quixotic?

But to close options in advance is rather quixotic.


How do you use the word quixotic in a sentence?

(the word quixotic modifies a noun and means unrealististic, or impractically idealistic)In it, he details his wild, quixotic journey from the hayfields of Montana to the sound stages of Hollywood.To celebrate our debut, we would like to invite you to experience the quixotic world of Molton Brown.Even more important, though, is the love the author has for his characters and their sometimes quixotic attempts at self-definition.And the idea that you can " halt climate change " is wonderfully quixotic.To close our options in advance is rather quixotic.


How do you pronounce the word quixotic?

The word "quixotic" is pronounced as kwik-SAHT-ik.


What is a sentence for the word quixotic?

In retrospect, in light of the opposition shown to it, the pursuit of universal health care by Ted Kennedy, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and now Barack Obama, seems a quixotic endeavor.


What is the noun form quixotic?

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