Don Quixote as a noun: - 1
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Don Quixote
noun
1 Don Quixote
The hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical.
Polish: Don Kichot, Don Kiszot, Don Quichote
2 Don Quixote
Any impractical idealist (after Cervantes' hero).
Polish: donkiszot
Roget 863:
rashness
etc.
adj.;
temerity,
want of caution,
imprudence,
indiscretion;
overconfidence,
presumption,
audacity.
precipitancy,
precipitation;
impetuosity;
levity;
foolhardihood†,
foolhardiness;
heedlessness,
thoughtlessness
etc.
(inattention)
458;
carelessness
etc.
(neglect)
460;
desperation;
Quixotism,
knight-errantry;
fire eating.
gaming,
gambling;
blind bargain,
leap in the dark,
leap of faith,
fool's paradise;
too many eggs in one basket.
desperado,
rashling†,
madcap,
daredevil,
Hotspur,
fire eater,
bully,
bravo,
Hector,
scapegrace,
enfant perdu [Fr.];
Don Quixote,
knight-errant,
Icarus;
adventurer;
gambler,
gamester;
dynamitard†;
boomer [U.S.].
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Roget 504:
madman,
lunatic,
maniac,
bedlamite†,
candidate for Bedlam,
raver†,
madcap,
crazy;
energumen†;
automaniac†,
monomaniac,
dipsomaniac,
kleptomaniac;
hypochondriac
etc.
(low spirits);;
crank,
Tom o'Bedlam.
dreamer
etc.
515;
rhapsodist,
seer,
highflier†,
enthusiast,
fanatic,
fanatico [Sp.];
exalte [Fr.];
knight errant,
Don Quixote.
idiot
etc.
501.
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Moby thesaurus: Bayard, Gawain, Lancelot, Quixote, Ritter, Sidney, Sir Galahad, bachelor, banneret, baronet, caballero, cavalier, chevalier, companion, daydreamer, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, enthusiast, escapist, idealist, knight, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant, lotus-eater, prophet, rhapsodist, romancer, romantic, romanticist, seer, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, visionary, wishful thinker ... show more.
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