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
This desire for dialogue, of understanding of other people, of friendship can be seen in the relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
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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
The tourists are not real, either, but icons out of time: the lover Casanova, the ubiquitous Kilroy, Sancho Panza and Don Quixote.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Castilla-La Mancha, a two-hour drive from Madrid, evokes the castles and windmills of Don Quixote.
—Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
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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
The tourists are not real, either, but icons out of time: the lover Casanova, the ubiquitous Kilroy, Sancho Panza and Don Quixote.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Castilla-La Mancha, a two-hour drive from Madrid, evokes the castles and windmills of Don Quixote.
—Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Don Quixote
Noun
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The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
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The actress, model, and singer portrayed the altruistic dreamer Lani McKenzie on season 8 of the action series, which centered on the exploits of a group of Los Angeles County lifeguards.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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Those attributes — earning Piccioli a reputation in fashion as one of its great romantics — were also apparent in his designs for Balenciaga, which incorporated plenty of thoughtful details that referenced the archive.—
Kati Chitrakorn,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Don Quixote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Don%20Quixote. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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