quixotic in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

quixotic in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for quixotic in the English»Spanish Dictionary

quixotic [kwɪkˈsɒtɪk, Am -ˈsɑ:t̬ɪk] ADJ liter

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Dai has a quixotic style of sudden asides in her writing, which may occasionally confuse the reader.
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An impulsive person or act might be regarded as quixotic.
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It manages to be serious, accurate and instructive, but is also an amusing text, quixotic and deeply moving.
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Then came the changes, adjustments imposed by the challenges of developing an enterprise of great ambitions, in much quixotic.
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Her quixotic character, pugnacity, ambition and daring plus her feminist pioneering meant that she was both admired and detested in equal measure.
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His personality became progressively quixotic as his drinking increased over the years and his health deteriorated.
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His five-piece band are brilliant, as they would need to be to cope with his wayward phrasing and quixotic sense of rhythm.
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But, for now at least, it may be the most effective deterrent to our own tragic and quixotic fools of imperialism.
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In waging this quixotic campaign, he was a key figure in the last stand of classical liberalism as a political movement in the nineteenth century.
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The piece is sanitised and stripped of its essence in a quixotic attempt to reach the utterly unknowable ("what the composer would have wanted").
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