Definition of Quixotical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quixotical

quiverers
quiverful
quiverfuls
quiverier
quivering
quiveringly
quiverings
quivers
quiversful
quivertip
quivertips
quivery
quixote
quixotes
quixotic
quixotical
quixotically
quixotism
quixotisms
quixotries
quixotry
quiz
quiz program
quiz show
quizbook
quizbooks
quizlike
quizmaster
quizmasters
quizmistress

Literary usage of Quixotical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Kelly, Walter Keating (1855)
"The king made himself ridiculous as a mere quixotical braggart. The secretary of his embassy in Petersburg delivered such an extremely absurd ultimatum, ..."

2. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"... even in the hot season ; nor .am I at all inclined to advocate the neglect of duties close at hand for quixotical devotion to remote ones. ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"... of common-sense and common honour would have done ; but Germaine was not a man of common-sense, and his honour was of so uncommon and quixotical a type, ..."

4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1848)
"... such a project, it was argued, was Quixotical here, with our more limited means and sparser population. Mr. Jackson took a different view of the matter; ..."

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