don quixotesque
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
40
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Don Quixote.
Example Sentences
- "Under his affected way of speaking Don José is a man of great simplicity. Rosario, a warm-hearted but worldly woman who never enters a church, treats him as a child. She makes him salads and lets him walk about the garden, listening to his Don Quixotesque speeches with a scarcely concealed smile."
- "But while in Jézabel Jehu's inward calling triumphs forcefully over Jezebel's sensuous temptation, in his agonizingly torn condition the hero of Schelomo can offer only bitter resignation. However effective this last, Don Quixotesque moment is in the music, it does not neutralize the luxurious sensuality of the score."
- "Liakos's own conceptualization of clandestine struggle included L'Armata Brancaleone (1966), Mario Monicelli's parody of a knights' quest in the Middle Ages. His projected identification with Brancaleone, the antihero of Don Quixotesque qualities, points to considerable self-irony in his organization's conceptualization of militantism."
Etymology
From Don Quixote + -esque.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Don Quixotesque (comparative)
most Don Quixotesque (superlative)