DON QUIXOTE Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

Don Quixote

noun

ˌdän-kē-ˈ(h)ō-tē

Definition of Don Quixote

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 Smale joined Tring Park Performing Arts Classical Ballet Academy in 2021 and became a Royal Ballet Junior Associate in 2022, performing in productions of Cinderella, Don Quixote and The Winter’s Tale. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 June 2026 Success finally came with Don Quixote, a novel about a knight-errant whose adventures are inspired by the author’s earlier days. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026 Spoiler alert on this 400-year-old novel, but Don Quixote doesn't actually slay any giants or rescue any princesses. — Meg Anderson, NPR, 22 Mar. 2026 Perhaps Albacete could even emulate Don Quixote. — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for Don Quixote

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The Holbrook sisters are undersocialized and inexperienced with the world, and Herzog sees them as figures out of a fable, dreamers who talk incessantly about love and seem connected to the elemental and the ancient.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
San Francisco Playhouse is currently presenting the musical, helmed by company artistic director Bill English (with Phaedra Tillery-Boughton credited as associate director) and starring Ella Ruth Francis as the indefatigable dreamer Tracy Turnblad.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026

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Upon arrival, the girls find a community of ravers and psychedelic rockers, romantics and orgiastics, shamans who serve as doctors, and poets who believe themselves to be prophets.

— Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
Many researchers and romantics alike believe this could be one of the earliest depictions of human affection.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026

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