quixote

noun

Definition of quixotenext
as in maverick

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quixote
  1. maverick
  2. screwball
  3. nonconformist
  4. eccentric
  5. loon
  6. kook
  7. codger
  8. crackpot
Noun
  • In the Wisconsin governor’s race, for instance, much of the support for the presumptive Democratic nominee, Francesca Hong, stemmed from her maverick stance against data centers.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The Met’s next fashion exhibition at the Costume Institute will feature British fashion maverick John Galliano.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 31 July 2026
Definition of maverick
Noun
  • 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
  • Guillen swung at a screwball tossed by Ramirez and hit a towering home run into over the left field fence to tie the game 1-1 and send the game into extra innings.
    — Ethan Hanson, Daily News, 4 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
  • No documentarian has a better eye for intriguing oddballs than Errol Morris, who built his feature film career on drawing them out in conversation, from pet-cemetery owners in Gates of Heaven to small-town eccentrics in Vernon, Florida.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
  • With its loose ends and digressions, Dream Me a Dream stays true to those idiosyncratic instincts while retaining enough of the welcoming glow of Dance of Love to make this an affecting farewell from an endearing eccentric.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 22 June 2026
Definition of eccentric
Noun
  • This is sending shivers down the spines of regular Democrats, who now sheepishly admit the party has been turned over to the left-wing loons.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026
  • Keep an Eye Out For Wildlife More than 240 species of birds (including an abundance of loons), 14 species of reptiles and amphibians, 54 species of fish, and more than 50 species of mammals call Voyageurs home—at least for part of the year.
    — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 18 June 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
  • 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
  • Artists have always used music to question authority and expose the cracks (and the crackpots) in the American story.
    — Time, Time, 6 May 2026
Definition of crackpot
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