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Don Quixote

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

Definition of Don Quixote

:an impractical idealist

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

Origin and Etymology of don quixote

Spanish, hero of Cervantes' Don Quixote

don quixote Synonyms

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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