Tuesday, 26 June 2012

word of the day part:fifty-one | quixotic

quixotic

quix·ot·ic [kwɪkˈsɒtɪk]
quix·ot·i·cal

adj.
1. Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality.
2. Capricious; impulsive.

[From English Quixote, a visionary, after Don Quixote, hero of a romance by Miguel de Cervantes.]

quixotically | adv.
quixotism | n.

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