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Jul. 03, 2015
Word of the Day

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\kwik-SOT-ik\
adjective
1. extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) resembling or befitting Don Quixote.
Quotes
In the next two days, Pitt and Giordino were hard-pressed to keep up their quixotic manner.
-- Clive Cussler, Valhalla Rising, 2001
Origin
Quixotic is an eponym based on the character Don Quixote from Miguel de Cervantes's book of the same name in which a delusional would-be knight-errant roams the countryside in search of adventure.
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