QUIXOTE Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

quixote

noun

Definition of quixote

as in maverick

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Noun

Bill Kerby, the maverick screenwriter who wrote the first draft of the Bette Midler-starring rock drama The Rose and worked on The Last American Hero, The Gravy Train and Hooper as well, has died.

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Home of the subversive and the sublime, the maverick and the madman, the inspired and the inspiring, the sage and the clown, and, most important, the brave.

— Tom Selleck, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of maverick

Noun

The 1980 screwball comedy, written by Patricia Resnick and Colin Higgins and directed by the latter, also stars Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Wilson, and Sterling Hayden.

— Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
Her repertoire includes a screwball, curveball and rise in addition to a fastball that tops out in the mid-to-high 60s.

— Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026

Definition of screwball

Noun

The phrase suggests outsider, nonconformist — things in fashion this year.

— Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
At least Guillén still speaks his mind on the Sox’s pre- and postgame shows, so maybe there’s hope for nonconformists after all.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026

Definition of nonconformist

Noun

The public reckonings with these figures’ legacies—the troubled former child star gone too soon, the beloved icon, the cult favorite, the complicated eccentric—have come in a cascade.

— Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Make sure to practice a full range of motion with these and emphasize the eccentric (the way down) part of the movement for maximal time under tension and muscle-building stimulus.

— Jakob Roze, HEALTH, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of eccentric

Noun

These feathers belonged to a hesperornithiform, an ancient flightless bird that dived for fish much like a modern loon.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
Whistles, which residents used to alert neighbors to the presence of ICE agents, and images of the rebel loon were also on display.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of loon

Noun

Halaena can tell that something’s up with mummy, but that kook’s never been too concerned with matters of court.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026
After Kent’s resignation, Republican hawks denounced him as a kook and a traitor to the cause, without touching on the delicate question of why Trump appointed such a disreputable figure in the first place.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026

Definition of kook

Noun

But what was served up were stale, pale sketches that seemed to have been exhumed from some old codger’s book of gags from 19 bloody 50!

— Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2026
My job was to conceptualize and oversee a luncheon for fifty of these luminaries—with the help of a woozy codger standing in front of me.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Oct. 2025

Definition of codger

Noun

Musk, as the documentary makes clear, is a genuine if flawed technocratic visionary, a messianic opportunist, and something of a crackpot.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
Get the angst out of the games, and the crackpots will move on to some other fashionable cause.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2026

Definition of crackpot

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