Crossword-Solution: QUIXOTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quixotic | a. | Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “QUIXOTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Visionary in vain | 1 answer |
| Absurdly romantic | 1 answer |
| Extravagantly romantic. | 1 answer |
| Foolishly impractical | 1 answer |
| Gallant but futile | 1 answer |
| Hardly practical | 1 answer |
| Idealistic, and then some | 1 answer |
| Not at all practical | 1 answer |
| Pursuing an unreachable goal | 1 answer |
| Starry-eyed and impractical | 1 answer |
| Impractically idealistic. | 2 answers |
| Extravagantly chivalrous. | 2 answers |
| Starry-eyed | 7 answers |
| ANY IMPRACTICAL IDEALIST | 10 answers |
| A WILD-EYED DREAM OF A WORLD STATE | 11 answers |
| Idealistic | 26 answers |
| unrealistic | 41 answers |
| Imagined | 42 answers |
| unexpressive | 52 answers |
| transcendental | 53 answers |
| shadowed | 55 answers |
| Utopian | 61 answers |
| fabricated | 67 answers |
| Foreign | 69 answers |
| Sentimental | 69 answers |
| Impractical | 70 answers |
| Unaccustomed ___... | 74 answers |
| unreal | 75 answers |
| Fanciful | 76 answers |
| recondite | 76 answers |
| Fan-tastic! | 80 answers |
| Visionary | 93 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with QUIXOTIC (5)
And what I like best in you is this particular enthusiasm, which is not at all practical or sensible, which is downright Quixotic.
The voice went on: “Olivier, as you know, was quixotic, and would not permit a secret service and spies.
The mountebank lay on his back upon a pallet; a large man, with a Quixotic nose inflamed with drinking.
There is in the makeup of the best type of college undergraduate a wonderful spirit of adventure, an unprejudiced view of life, an almost Quixotic feeling for romance, a disdain of sordid or materialistic motives, which together make the years spent at a great university the most golden of the average man's career.
There were the patriotism and the Americanism, as much a part of him as the marrow of his bones, and from which sprang all those brilliant headlong letters to the newspapers: those trenchant assaults upon evil-doers in public office, those quixotic efforts to redress wrongs, and those simple and dexterous exposures of this and that, from an absolutely unexpected point of view.
Quotes with QUIXOTIC (3)
He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.
Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move.
Hey - Duggie! Duggie! Duggie!" He came running up to me, sparkler in hand. I felt like sticking one on him, the cheeky bastard. Nobody called me Duggie. He held the sparkler up in front of my face and said, "Wait. Wait." I was already waiting. What else was there to do?" Here you are," he said. "Look! What's this?" At that precise moment, his sparkler fizzled out. I didn't say anything, so he supplied the answer himself. "The death of the socialist dream," he said. He giggled…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1953–2023).