quixotic

[After Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes' romance of that name, who is pictured as a half-crazy champion of the supposed distre ed, and a caricature of the knight-errants of the Middle Ages.] Extravagantly romantic; aiming at an extravagantly ideal standard; visionary; ridiculously venturesome or romantic. quix-ot-ic-al-ly, adv. [Eng. quixotic; -ally.] In a quixotic manner; in a mad or absurdly romantic manner. quix-ot-işm, s . [QUIXOTIC.] Schemes or actions like those of Don Quixote; romantic or visionary ideas. quix-ot-rỹ, s. [QUIXOTIC.] Quixotism; visionary schemes.