quixotical

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quixotical
Adjective
  • Moreover, in romantic relationships, those who self-distanced were more likely to problem-solve constructively and less likely to escalate conflicts.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • The coming-of-age romantic television series based on the popular book trilogy of the same name by Jenny Han will premiere on Amazon Prime Video next week.
    Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • Aside from being impractical, the new importation strategy would leave America’s drug supply vulnerable to dangerous counterfeit medicines from abroad.
    Sally C. Pipes, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2025
  • However, for many travelers who take only one or two flights a year, that's impractical advice.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • František, the more optimistic and quixotic of the two, has spent the last 20 years attempting to build a flying perpetuum machine — daydreamy compensation, perhaps, for having lost an arm in a sawmill accident decades before.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 July 2025
  • Trump also hinted that a deal with Harvard was imminent, but some Harvard faculty worried about the terms of a prospective deal appearing to look like capitulation, while others worried that the university’s battle over purist principles of academic freedom was quixotic and too costly.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • This is not an idealistic concept; there are programs in the U.S. that link food systems to human health.
    Alana Sandel, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Mark your calendars because this summer is about to get lit — especially as responsible Saturn, idealistic Neptune, and transformational Pluto alchemize with Uranus, bringing extreme makeovers to many aspects of our lives and to the world at large.
    Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • Here, businesses can grow without the weight of government regulation or woke ideological agendas.
    Mike Dunleavy, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025
  • Advertisement Beyond religious and ideological attacks, 14.3% of posts contained nativist language calling for Mamdani's deportation or citizenship revocation.
    Juwayriah Wright, Time, 9 July 2025
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“Quixotical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quixotical. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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