Usually means: Pursuing idealistic, unrealistic, noble goals.
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  1. quixotic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quixotic: Merriam-Webster
  3. quixotic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quixotic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quixotic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quixotic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quixotic, quixotic: Wordnik
  8. quixotic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quixotic: Wiktionary
  10. quixotic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quixotic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quixotic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Quixotic, quixotic: Dictionary.com
  14. quixotic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. quixotic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Quixotic (album), Quixotic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Quixotic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. quixotic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. quixotic: Rhymezone
  20. Quixotic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. quixotic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. quixotic: FreeDictionary.org
  23. quixotic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. quixotic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. quixotic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. quixotic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Quixotic: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quixotic: Legal dictionary

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  1. quixotic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quixotic: A Word A Day
  2. quixotic: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See quixotical as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Resembling or characteristic of the Spanish chivalric hero Don Quixote; possessed with or resulting from the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality; exceedingly idealistic.
noun:  (rare) A quixotic person or sentiment.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of quixotic [Resembling or characteristic of the Spanish chivalric hero Don Quixote; possessed with or resulting from the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality; exceedingly idealistic.]

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