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kwik-SAH-tik · adjective

quixotic

Exceedingly idealistic, especially when that idealism is impractical.

Where the word comes from

Named for Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s imaginative, well-meaning would-be knight.

In a sentence

“Their quixotic plan to read every book in the library was ambitious but not impossible.”

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Merriam-Webster dictionary entry for quixotic