Usually means: Pursuit of unrealistic, idealistic goals.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. quixotry: Merriam-Webster
  2. quixotry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quixotry: Collins English Dictionary
  4. quixotry: Wordnik
  5. quixotry: Wiktionary
  6. Quixotry, quixotry: Dictionary.com
  7. Quixotry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. quixotry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Quixotry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. quixotry: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Quixotry: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Quixotry: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.

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conceit, dream, whim, reverie, delirament, quest, idea, curiosity, genio, quaesitum, more...

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conceit, dream, whim, reverie, delirament, quest, idea, curiosity, genio, quaesitum, more...



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