Quixotic
Pronounced:
< Quick-zot-tic >
Pronounced:
< Quick-zot-tic >
Persistently Impractical. Unpredictable.
My use:
It is quixotic of you to keep suggesting that Friday should be Hawaiian T-shirt day. The company will never agree.
It is quixotic of you to keep suggesting that Friday should be Hawaiian T-shirt day. The company will never agree.
Literary use:
By George Eliot
As a consequence, her not infrequent excursions into the domain of satire are usually luckless and Quixotic.
By George Eliot
As a consequence, her not infrequent excursions into the domain of satire are usually luckless and Quixotic.
Memory trick:
Quixotic
Quixotic
Quix (sounds like ) = quick
otic (reminds of ) = neurotic or unpredictable
Quick at being neurotic
otic (reminds of ) = neurotic or unpredictable
Quick at being neurotic
Listen: Quixotic
posted by Englishionary at
12:05 PM
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