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Don Quixotesque

Don Quixotesque adjective: resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Don Quixote.

Adjective

Don Quixotesque (comparative more Don Quixotesque, superlative most Don Quixotesque)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Don Quixote.
    • 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.1950, Gerald Brenan, chapter 5, in The Face of Spain, Serif Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 99
    • 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...2008, Klára Móricz, Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music, University of California Press, →ISBN, part 2, chapter 4, 141
    Synonyms:
    Don Quixotic

Examples of Don Quixotesque in a sentence

  • However effective this last, Don Quixotesque moment is in the music, it does not neutralize the luxurious sensuality of the score.2008, Klára Móricz, Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music, University of California Press...
  • His projected identification with Brancaleone, the antihero of Don Quixotesque qualities, points to considerable self-irony in his organization's conceptualization of militantism.2013, Kostis Kornetis, chapter 2, in Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the ‘Long 1960s’ in Greece...

Synonyms of Don Quixotesque

Forms of Don Quixotesque

comparativemore Don Quixotesque
superlativemost Don Quixotesque

Origin of Don Quixotesque

From Don Quixote + -esque.

Questions about Don Quixotesque

What does Don Quixotesque mean?
Don Quixotesque means resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Don Quixote.
How do you use Don Quixotesque in a sentence?
However effective this last, Don Quixotesque moment is in the music, it does not neutralize the luxurious sensuality of the score.
What part of speech is Don Quixotesque?
Don Quixotesque is an adjective.

Words near Don Quixotesque in the dictionary

  1. Don Montano
  2. Don Pedro
  3. Don Potenciano Larrazabal
  4. Don Quixote
  5. Don Quixotes
  6. Don Quixotesque
  7. Don Quixotic
  8. Don Ricardo Macias
  9. Don Salvador Benedicto
  10. Don the Con
  11. Don Valley

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