what does QUIXOTIC mean?

It comes from Don Quixote, the man from La Mancha who went travelling to fulfill his dream.. To be quixotic, means to be a dreamer…………..

Quixotic Meaning

Quixotic is behaving foolishly impractical in the pursuit of ideals, especially marked by rash, lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action. The word comes from the character Don Quixote. If you thought Jack (Leo DiCaprio) from Titanic was “sooooo dreamy”, you were feeling quixotic.

There are two modes to using the word “quixotic”.

The first mode occurs after reading the dictionary entry on the word but before reading the story of Don Quixote.

But soon after you have read the story, you would realise you would want to reserve this word for describing certain people.

Not just dreamers.

In the story, Quixote sets forth to be a dragon slayer. He sees a windmill and starts mutilating it, imagining it to be a dragon. He is deluded. (Deluded – a boy tells a girl he suspects she loves him. Her reply “you’re deluded.”)

He is schizophrenic – a medical condition where one hears voices or sees people who are non-existent communicating with the sufferer of the mental illness.

He goes around the country creating a mess. He is eccentric. He returns home unaccomplished.

The “x” in quixote is aspirated like a hard “h”. Perhaps, like trying to pronounce “h” from your throat rather than from your upper palate.

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