Word Meanings - QUIXOTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. "Feats of quixotic gallantry." Prescott.

Related words: (words related to QUIXOTIC)

• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• QUIXOTICALLY
  In a quixotic way.
• CHIVALRIC
  Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• DELUDER
  One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• ROMANTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
• EXTRAVAGANCE
  1. A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit. 2. The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure
• DELUDE
  1. To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of. To delude the nation by an airy phantom. Burke. 2. To frustrate or disappoint. It deludes thy search. Dryden. Syn. --
• ABSURDLY
  In an absurd manner.
• ROMANTICNESS
  The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.
• ROMANTICLY
  Romantically. Strype.
• DELUDABLE
  Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on gullible. Sir T. Browne.
• QUIXOTIC
  Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. "Feats of quixotic gallantry." Prescott.
• ROMANTICISM
  A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi He may be said to have begun the
• GALLANTRY
  1. Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery. Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller. 2. Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry.
• NECROMANTIC; NECROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.
• HYDROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to divination by water.
• ASTROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrologic. Dr. H. More.
• PYROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to pyromancy.
• CHIROMANTIC; CHIROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to chiromancy.
• PSEUDO-ROMANTIC
  Falsely romantic. The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage. De Quincey.