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单词 Don Quixote
释义

Don Quixote

noun

Don Qui·​xote ˌdän-kē-ˈ(h)ō-tē How to pronounce Don Quixote (audio)
ˌdäŋ-;
 chiefly British  dän-ˈkwik-sət
: an impractical idealist

Synonyms

  • dreamer
  • fantast
  • idealist
  • idealizer
  • ideologue
  • idealogue
  • romantic
  • romanticist
  • utopian
  • visionary
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Example Sentences

a latter-day Don Quixote, she's spent her life fighting the state's big logging companies

Word History

Etymology

Spanish, hero of Cervantes' Don Quixote

First Known Use

1630, in the meaning defined above

Don Quixote

noun

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • dreamer
  • idealizer
  • romantic
  • utopian
  • romanticist
  • idealist
  • fantasizer
  • visionary
  • woolgatherer
  • ideologue
  • fantast
  • idealogue
  • emotionalist
  • theorist
  • optimist
  • sentimentalist
  • daydreamer
  • Pollyanna
  • perfectionist
  • reformer
  • Micawber
  • thinker
  • doctrinaire
  • do-gooder

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • realist
  • pragmatist
  • cynic
  • pessimist
  • empiricist
  • hardnose
  • defeatist
  • empiric
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