Friday, May 5, 2017

                                   QUIXOTIC (Adj.)



Meaning- having or involving ideas or plans that show imagination but are usually not practical.

Mnemonic trick- The word quixotic is made from two words Quick + exotic. Exotic means something very strange or unusual especially because it is foreign. If you want to have a number of exotic things quickly. This is impractical. Therefore, quixotic means impractical or something not practical.



Synonym- UTOPIAN, IDEALISTIC, IMPRACTICAL

Uses-
  •          Kangna is making a quixotic effort of installing operating system windows 8 on her Nokia phone.
  •          We should not have quixotic dreams about our future.
  •          Are you hopeful, romantic and idealistic almost to a ridiculous extreme? You are quixotic.
  •          His ideas were rejected and declared quixotic, as it involved reckless spending.


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