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Quixotic

adjective

1 quixotic

Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic:
— As quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood.

synonyms: romantic, wild-eyed.

Roget 515: imagined etc. v.; ben trovato [It]; air drawn, airbuilt.    imagining etc. v., imaginative; original, inventive, creative, fertile.    ... show more

Roget 863: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless etc. (neglectful) 460; without ballast, heels over head, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: absurd, airy, autistic, chimerical, dereistic, dreamlike, dreamy, fanciful, fantastic, foolhardy, idealistic, impracticable, impractical, in the clouds, mad, optimistic, otherworldly, poetic, preposterous, rash ... show more.

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