as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
a latter-day Don Quixote, she's spent her life fighting the state's big logging companies
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Recent Examples of Don Quixote
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky, and Martin Scorsese’s Silence, to name a few.
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Justin Kroll, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
The epic offers a dreamy, dramatic take on Miguel de Cervantes, the fella behind Don Quixote.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
This desire for dialogue, of understanding of other people, of friendship can be seen in the relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Of course, that Don Quixote dry western vibe is not easy to pull off when nothing is… well, dry.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Justin Kroll, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
The epic offers a dreamy, dramatic take on Miguel de Cervantes, the fella behind Don Quixote.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
This desire for dialogue, of understanding of other people, of friendship can be seen in the relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Of course, that Don Quixote dry western vibe is not easy to pull off when nothing is… well, dry.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Don Quixote
Noun
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In January, Zapata will open a flight center near Las Vegas, where dreamers can fly on a geofenced track that winds around the roughly 50-acre property.—
J. George Gorant,
Robb Report,
24 Oct. 2025
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Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Pic takes place in 1970s Detroit, where a working-class romantic is framed by a ruthless gangster after falling for his girlfriend.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
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Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Don Quixote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Don%20Quixote. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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