quixotic
adjective
(of a goal, action, or impulse) characterized by impractical idealism or by extravagant chivalry and romantic imagination.
quixotical
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a variation of
quixotic.
Example Sentences
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The antecedents of the Franco-Prussian War had been clearly thought out by the German masters at a time when Louis Napoleon was still tinkering with his quixotical Empire in Mexico.
From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by John Clark Ridpath
She clung to the poor comfort that something must have passed at the interview so kindly sought by George to set the quixotical young farmer against him.
From The Elect Lady by George MacDonald
Sir Henry Lee, however, appears to have devoted his life to these chivalrous pageantries rather from a quixotical imagination than with any serious views of ambition or interest.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
