Word.ws English Dictionary

unquixotic

unquixotic adjective: not quixotic.

Adjective

unquixotic (comparative more unquixotic, superlative most unquixotic)

  1. Not quixotic.
    • The old chivalric code and a more modern code of honour reveals itself in Stuart literature and the behaviour of quite unquixotic Englishmen.1977, Brian Bond, Ian Roy, War and society: a yearbook of military history, Volume 2
    • The astonishingly unquixotic behaviour in the 1615 novel occurs when faced with the very essence of the Christian's knight's foes: death and the devil.2006, Frederick Alfred De Armas, Quixotic frescoes: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance art

Forms of unquixotic

comparativemore unquixotic
superlativemost unquixotic

Origin of unquixotic

From un- + quixotic.

Questions about unquixotic

What does unquixotic mean?
Unquixotic means not quixotic.
What part of speech is unquixotic?
Unquixotic is an adjective.

Words near unquixotic in the dictionary

  1. unquitted
  2. unquitting
  3. unquivered
  4. unquivering
  5. unquiveringly
  6. unquixotic
  7. unquizzed
  8. unquizzical
  9. unquizzically
  10. unquod
  11. unquoined

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unquixotic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unquixotic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unquixotic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.