quixotical

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for quixotical
Adjective
  • In fact, today a friendship could turn romantic.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Cassie and another accuser, Jane, told jurors that Diddy brought them into his troubled world under the false auspices of a romantic relationship.
    Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For apartment residents or those without garages, the lack of charging options makes EV adoption impractical.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The 2025 Wrangler Rubicon 4xe is absurd, impractical, overpriced, and an odd combination of power – which is exactly why people should love it.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of Herzog’s films capture that sense of a quixotic, even bizarre quest, an antihero searching for some kind of truth that may be obvious only to himself.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • His performance here most recalls his tragicomic portrayal of John Brown, the heroic but unhinged abolitionist whose quixotic raid on Harpers Ferry helped catalyze the Civil War, in Showtime’s 2020 adaptation of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The trend for the last twenty years is for a Balkanized internet—not the idealistic worldwide web, but local internet without much access to the outside.
    Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for influence in Asia and Africa, packing their ideological visions in the guise of development, and luring modernizing Asian and African leaders with loans and technical assistance in dam building and hydraulics.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Related Stories His latest is a blunt cinematic instrument — loud, loaded and bursting with carnage and ideological angst.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Quixotical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quixotical. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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