as in romantic
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
in this age of giant chain stores, any attempt at operating an independent bookstore must be regarded as quixotic
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Recent Examples of quixotic
Best Buy has a bunch of PlayStation 5 games on sale for super-low prices this weekend, but our top pick is Hideo Kojima's quixotic post-Metal Gear project Death Stranding.
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K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 6 Dec. 2024
As so began a quixotic quest, snowballing into winter, cheered by skiers and snowboarders in Oregon and beyond, to raise about $200 million and wrest Mt. Bachelor from the corporate titans of a consolidating industry.
—John Branch, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The goal should not be eradicating EOL—a quixotic effort—but rather determining and defending acceptable risk.
—Ismail Amla, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Jim’s funneling of his grief into a quixotic search for certainty, rather than moving on, is as much a thematic trope as his wall crammed with data and theories is a visual one.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Jan. 2025
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K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 6 Dec. 2024
As so began a quixotic quest, snowballing into winter, cheered by skiers and snowboarders in Oregon and beyond, to raise about $200 million and wrest Mt. Bachelor from the corporate titans of a consolidating industry.
—John Branch, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The goal should not be eradicating EOL—a quixotic effort—but rather determining and defending acceptable risk.
—Ismail Amla, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Jim’s funneling of his grief into a quixotic search for certainty, rather than moving on, is as much a thematic trope as his wall crammed with data and theories is a visual one.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quixotic
Adjective
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There are some moments when The Actor does rouse with inspired romantic set pieces and funny reflections on the whole business of performing.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Mar. 2025
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Larroquette and Alley immediately convey an easygoing romantic charm that anchors the whole film; although Ropelewski orchestrates the escalation of comic situations with meticulous care, there’s nothing mechanical about the effect thanks to Larroquette and Alley’s breezy naturalism.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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These scenarios are impractical or impossible with other virtualization software.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
28 Feb. 2025
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Traditional transport methods were deemed too impractical and stressful for the beavers, making aerial relocation the most viable option.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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And in that respect, there is a chance Starmer could drag the monarchy headlong into a major backlash, particularly with idealistic young people, whose support Charles is already struggling to maintain.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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The idealistic progressive laws of the seventies—those mandating environmental review, safety and anti-corruption standards, historic preservation, prevailing wages, and, most important, local power over zoning—had meant to protect small communities against moneyed interests.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Just three miles east is the French Icarian Village, settled in the 1800s by a group of French people who started a utopian community based on egalitarianism.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Mar. 2025
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Reality check: Some outside commentators see techno as telling a dystopian story in Detroit, amid population decline and auto industry layoffs, contrasted with a free, post-Cold War utopian narrative in Europe, according to MSU English professor Julian Chambliss.—
Annalise Frank,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.—
Carlo Tortora Brayda,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Quixotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quixotic. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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