DON QUIXOTE Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

Don Quixote

noun

ˌdän-kē-ˈ(h)ō-tē

as in dreamer

one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world a latter-day Don Quixote, she's spent her life fighting the state's big logging companies

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Recent Examples on the Web For Spaniards, the resulting jamón Ibérico is as much of a cultural symbol as Picasso’s Cubist art, the red wines of Rioja, or Don Quixote’s windmills. —

Sofia Perez, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2024 Unity is the great elusive dream of Latin America, and Bolívar is its Don Quixote. —

Ilan Stavans, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2013 Miller has appeared in Netflix’s Warrior Nun and The CW’s The 100, as well as films like Megan Leavey and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. —

Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 June 2024 The willingness to be a political Don Quixote, while never common in Congress, now seems vanishingly rare. —

Ron Elving, NPR, 18 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for Don Quixote

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