quixoticadj.n.

Brit.

/kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/, U.S.

/kwɪkˈsɑdɪk/

Forms: 1600s– quixotic, 1700s quixotik, 1700s–1800s quixotick, 1800s quixottic. Also with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Quixote n., -ic suffix.

Etymology: < Quixote n. + -ic suffix. Compare earlier quixotical adj. and Quixote adj.

A. adj.

1. Of an action, attribute, idea, etc.: characteristic of or appropriate to Don Quixote; demonstrating or motivated by exaggerated notions of chivalry and romanticism; naively idealistic; unrealistic, impracticable; (also) unpredictable, capricious, whimsical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical

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temperamental1907

up and down1960

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fanciful-

fantastic-

1718 N. Amhurst Protestant Popery iv. 61 Pulpit and Press ficticious Ills engage, And combat Windmills with Quixotic Rage.

1779 J. Thaxter Let. 15 Dec. in L. H. Butterfield et al. Adams Family Corr. (1973) III. 251 We made a Quixotik Appearance [on mules in Spain]..For we had Don Quixots, Sancha Pancas and Squires in Abundance.

1826 Lancet 16 Dec. 356/2 It would be somewhat Quixotic to expect, that no protests would be made.

1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 131 A daring that would seem almost quixotic.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People x. §1. 719 A quixotic mission to the Indians of Georgia.

1929 Travel Jan. 7 (caption) One of the most romantic adventures of modern times: the quixotic attempt to carve an empire out of the New World.

1956 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 2 July i. 4/5 A man of quixotic whims who once ran for president of the U.S.

1990 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 90/4 Shostakovich was not the only artist who survived because of Stalin's quixotic approachability.

2004 T. Rosenbaum Myth Moral Justice Introd. 3 The law comes across as unjust and quixotic... Its results don't feel right emotionally to those who are neither its insiders nor cast members.

2. Of a person: resembling Don Quixote; visionary; enthusiastically chivalrous or romantic; naively idealistic; impractical, capricious.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [adjective]

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Quixote1708

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errant1822

1777 Mutability Human Life II. 259 Count Dismallo..waited on good Mrs. White before your Quixotic Villars had taken his final leave of her.

1815 J. Adams Wks. (1856) X. 157 I considered Miranda as a vagrant, a vagabond, a Quixotic adventurer.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 4 This family training..makes them eminently quixotic.

1898 Sandusky (Ohio) Star 15 July 1/4 Cunningham-Graham has long been familiar to the public as a Quixotic champion of lost causes.

1939 Fortune Oct. 30/2 I was sad, because I always used to think of the Belgians as wonderfully quixotic, which it seems that they are not.

1974 N.Y. Times 20 May 33/2 No quixotic lot, this pool of windmill advocates now includes members of some of the most serious research institutes.

1994 H. Bloom Western Canon ii. v. 129 Against that claim I set the most poignant and Quixotic of all critical agonists, the Basque man of letters Miguel de Unamuno.

B. n.

A quixotic person. Also (rare) in plural: quixotic sentiments.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [noun] > quixotic sentiments

Don 'Quixotism1719

quixotic1896

1896 Spectator 7 Mar. 337 If..our Quixotics seem foolish or extravagant.

1918 Times 16 Mar. 9/3 ‘Our’ opera..will have nothing to do with maudlin decadents or unbalanced quixotics.

1974 Amer. Jrnl. Agric. Econ. 56 888/1 The quixotics, of course, also tilt among themselves whenever windmills are scarce.

1998 Eng. Hist. Rev. 113 501 Iain McCalman's joyfully written essay compares the perceived lunacies of Lord George Gordon and Edmund Burke, quixotics and prophets both.

Derivatives

quiˈxoticism n. = quixotism n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [noun]

quixotism1620

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Don 'Quixotism1719

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quixoticism1850

1850 De Bow's Rev. Aug. 169 The landing at Cardenas could only have been considered a piece of American Quixoticism.

1939 Tablet 3 June 705/1 Hungarian public life, that curious mixture of eloquence and generous impulse, of Quixoticism and brutal reality.

2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) (Nexis) Oct. 194 You might argue that it's quixoticism, an effort to preserve what's already lost..an effort to embrace for dear life the remains of the day.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quixotic
释义	quixoticadj.n. Brit. /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/, U.S. /kwɪkˈsɑdɪk/ Forms: 1600s– quixotic, 1700s quixotik, 1700s–1800s quixotick, 1800s quixottic. Also with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Quixote n., -ic suffix. Etymology: < Quixote n. + -ic suffix. Compare earlier quixotical adj. and Quixote adj. A. adj. 1. Of an action, attribute, idea, etc.: characteristic of or appropriate to Don Quixote; demonstrating or motivated by exaggerated notions of chivalry and romanticism; naively idealistic; unrealistic, impracticable; (also) unpredictable, capricious, whimsical. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical startfulmood?a1300 wildc1350 volage?a1366 gerfulc1374 geryc1386 wild-headeda1400 skittishc1412 gerish1430 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 runningc1449 volageous1487 glaikit1488 fantasious1490 giggish1523 tickle or light of the sear?1530 fantastical1531 wayward1531 wantona1538 peevish1539 light-headed1549 humoral1573 unstaid1579 shittle-headed1580 toy-headed1581 fangled1587 humorous1589 choiceful1591 toyish1598 tricksy1598 skip-brain1603 capricious1605 humoursome1607 planetary1607 vertiginous1609 whimsieda1625 ingiddied1628 whimsy1637 toysome1638 cocklec1640 mercurial1647 garish1650 maggoty1650 kicksey-winseya1652 freakish1653 humourish1653 planetic1653 whimsical1653 shittle-braineda1655 freaking1663 maggoty-headed1667 maggot-pated1681 hoity-toity1690 maggotish1693 maggot-headeda1695 whimsy-headed1699 fantasque1701 crotchetly1702 quixotic1718 volatile1719 holloweda1734 conundrumical1743 flighty1768 fly-away1775 dizzy1780 whimmy1785 shy1787 whimming1787 quirky1789 notional1791 tricksome1815 vagarish1819 freakful1820 faddy1824 moodish1827 mawky1837 erratic1841 rockety1843 quirkish1848 maggoty-pated1850 crotchetya1854 freaksome1854 faddish1855 vagrom1882 fantasied1883 vagarisome1883 on-and-offish1888 tricksical1889 freaky1891 hobby-horsical1893 quirksome1896 temperamental1907 up and down1960 untogether1969 fanciful- fantastic- 1718 N. Amhurst Protestant Popery iv. 61 Pulpit and Press ficticious Ills engage, And combat Windmills with Quixotic Rage. 1779 J. Thaxter Let. 15 Dec. in L. H. Butterfield et al. Adams Family Corr. (1973) III. 251 We made a Quixotik Appearance [on mules in Spain]..For we had Don Quixots, Sancha Pancas and Squires in Abundance. 1826 Lancet 16 Dec. 356/2 It would be somewhat Quixotic to expect, that no protests would be made. 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 131 A daring that would seem almost quixotic. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People x. §1. 719 A quixotic mission to the Indians of Georgia. 1929 Travel Jan. 7 (caption) One of the most romantic adventures of modern times: the quixotic attempt to carve an empire out of the New World. 1956 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 2 July i. 4/5 A man of quixotic whims who once ran for president of the U.S. 1990 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 90/4 Shostakovich was not the only artist who survived because of Stalin's quixotic approachability. 2004 T. Rosenbaum Myth Moral Justice Introd. 3 The law comes across as unjust and quixotic... Its results don't feel right emotionally to those who are neither its insiders nor cast members. 2. Of a person: resembling Don Quixote; visionary; enthusiastically chivalrous or romantic; naively idealistic; impractical, capricious. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [adjective] errantical1612 errantic1654 quixotical1657 Quixote1708 quixotish1743 quixotic1777 errant1822 1777 Mutability Human Life II. 259 Count Dismallo..waited on good Mrs. White before your Quixotic Villars had taken his final leave of her. 1815 J. Adams Wks. (1856) X. 157 I considered Miranda as a vagrant, a vagabond, a Quixotic adventurer. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 4 This family training..makes them eminently quixotic. 1898 Sandusky (Ohio) Star 15 July 1/4 Cunningham-Graham has long been familiar to the public as a Quixotic champion of lost causes. 1939 Fortune Oct. 30/2 I was sad, because I always used to think of the Belgians as wonderfully quixotic, which it seems that they are not. 1974 N.Y. Times 20 May 33/2 No quixotic lot, this pool of windmill advocates now includes members of some of the most serious research institutes. 1994 H. Bloom Western Canon ii. v. 129 Against that claim I set the most poignant and Quixotic of all critical agonists, the Basque man of letters Miguel de Unamuno. B. n. A quixotic person. Also (rare) in plural: quixotic sentiments. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [noun] > quixotic sentiments Don 'Quixotism1719 quixotic1896 1896 Spectator 7 Mar. 337 If..our Quixotics seem foolish or extravagant. 1918 Times 16 Mar. 9/3 ‘Our’ opera..will have nothing to do with maudlin decadents or unbalanced quixotics. 1974 Amer. Jrnl. Agric. Econ. 56 888/1 The quixotics, of course, also tilt among themselves whenever windmills are scarce. 1998 Eng. Hist. Rev. 113 501 Iain McCalman's joyfully written essay compares the perceived lunacies of Lord George Gordon and Edmund Burke, quixotics and prophets both. Derivatives quiˈxoticism n. = quixotism n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [noun] quixotism1620 windmill1645 errantry1654 knight-errantry1660 quixotry1703 Don 'Quixotism1719 romance1745 quixoticism1850 1850 De Bow's Rev. Aug. 169 The landing at Cardenas could only have been considered a piece of American Quixoticism. 1939 Tablet 3 June 705/1 Hungarian public life, that curious mixture of eloquence and generous impulse, of Quixoticism and brutal reality. 2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) (Nexis) Oct. 194 You might argue that it's quixoticism, an effort to preserve what's already lost..an effort to embrace for dear life the remains of the day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1718
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