Vocabulary Word
Word: quixotic
Definition: idealistic but impractical; CF. Don Quixote
Definition: idealistic but impractical; CF. Don Quixote
Sentences Containing 'quixotic'
He was one of the few, very few, translators that have shown any apprehension of the unsmiling gravity which is the essence of Quixotic humour; it seemed to him a crime to bring Cervantes forward smirking and grinning at his own good things, and to this may be attributed in a great measure the ascetic abstinence from everything savouring of liveliness which is the characteristic of his translation.
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