Don Quixote

Don Qui·xote

noun
\ˌdän-kē-ˈ(h)ō-tē, ˌdäŋ-; chiefly British dän-ˈkwik-sət\

Definition of DON QUIXOTE

: an impractical idealist

Examples of DON QUIXOTE

1. <a latter-day Don Quixote, she's spent her life fighting the state's big logging companies>

Origin of DON QUIXOTE

Spanish, hero of Cervantes' Don Quixote

First Known Use: 1630

Related to DON QUIXOTE

Synonyms: idealist, dreamer, fantast, idealizer, ideologue (also idealogue), romantic, romanticist, utopian, visionary

Antonyms: hardnose, pragmatist, realist

Related Words: emotionalist, sentimentalist; daydreamer, fantasizer, woolgatherer; Micawber, optimist, Pollyanna; do-gooder, reformer; perfectionist; doctrinaire, theorist, thinker

Near Antonyms: cynic, defeatist, pessimist; empiric, empiricist

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Rhymes with DON QUIXOTE

achiote