Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. (me), it’s a fun way to improve one’s vocabulary by learning new words every week. If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on one of my WOW post.

Here’s the WOW for this week :

Word:

Quixotic

Part Of Speech:

Adjective

Derivatives:

quixotically: adverb

quixotism: noun

quixotry: noun

Pronunciation: 

kwik-sot-ik

Meaning:

-extremely idealistic

-unrealistic and impractical.

Synonyms:

Idealistic, unbusinesslike, starry-eyed, visionary, romantic, extravagant, utopian, unworldly.

Antonyms:

(none)

Word Origin: 

Use in sentence: 

• The expectations of my client, for that project, were quixotic.
• That historically building was quixotically huge.

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