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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