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Pronunciation: [kwɪksˈɒtɪkli] (IPA)

Quixotically refers to someone who is idealistic and impractical, dreaming of an ideal world that does not exist. Synonyms for quixotically include unrealistically, fancifully, idealistically, utopian, romantically, optimistically, imaginatively, and wildly. These words suggest that the person is a dreamer who sees things through rose-tinted lenses, creating a fantasy world in their mind that is far detached from reality. Although quixotic behavior can be admirable at times, it can also be seen as naive, impractical, and even foolish depending on the situation. Therefore, it is important to balance idealism with practicality for a successful outcome.
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McCalloway began to see the blossoming of his quixotically fantastic idea into some hope and semblance of reality.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Glorification of violent passion,-quest of innermost mysteries,-boundless expansion of self-consciousness,-visions of a future of transcendent magnificence, and notwithstanding an ardent worship of reality a quixotically impracticable detachment from the concrete basis of civic life,-these outstanding characteristics of the Nietzschean philosophy give unmistakable proof of a central, driving, romantic inspiration: Nietzsche shifts the essence and principle of being to a new center of gravity, by substituting the Future for the Present and relying on the untrammeled expansion of spontaneous forces which upon closer examination are found to be without definite aim or practical goal.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
And yet he had behaved well, even quixotically.
"Gallegher and Other Stories"
Richard Harding Davis

Famous quotes with Quixotically

  • If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.
    William S. Burroughs

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