quixoticadjective
uk/kwɪkˈsɒt.ɪk/us/kwɪkˈsɑː.t̬ɪk/literaryhaving or showing ideas that are different and unusual but not practical or likely to succeed:
This is a vast, exciting and some say quixotic project.
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- moon around
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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quixotically
adverb uk/kwɪkˈsɒt.ɪ.kəl.i/us/kwɪkˈsɑː.t̬ɪ.kəl.i/