quixote

noun

Definition of quixotenext
as in maverick

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  1. maverick
  2. screwball
  3. nonconformist
  4. kook
  5. codger
  6. eccentric
  7. crackpot
  8. weirdo
Noun
  • Further reading: Trump wants to end this GOP maverick’s political career.
    — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Since the Second World War, the United States has exercised de-facto military control over Greenland, thanks to the maverick diplomat Henrik Kauffmann, who, as Denmark’s envoy to Washington in 1941, granted the U.S. control over its security.
    — Louise Bokkenheuser, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of maverick
Noun
  • The base is made with banana nectar, screwball, white crème de cocoa and ice.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The Residence is a screwball whodunit set in the upstairs, downstairs, and backstairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world's most famous mansion.
    — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Definition of screwball
Noun
  • German immigrants founded and built the club, and in later decades Nature Friends became a hub for numerous groups: some esoteric, some nonconformist and others looking for a rustic place to chill.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Invariably, memorials devoted to these two nonconformists emphasized their complicated personalities.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 3 July 2024
Definition of nonconformist
Noun
  • No flying monkey drive-by attacks or bug-eyed conspiracy kooks.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The brand’s ready-to-wear this season felt like a conjoining of ideas in its other shows over the past few seasons, creating a kind of wearable kook.
    — Julian Randall, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of kook
Noun
  • Popular culture’s usual parade of toothless codgers and crones increasingly seemed obsolete.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Otto is also suicidal — something A Man Called Otto never sufficiently dramatizes, cheapening the codger’s despair as the film prepares for the feel-good ending to come.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of codger
Noun
  • Rachel does a great job conveying such collective endeavors and group dreaming, the whole circumference of people who support bands: friends of friends, drop-of-a-hat designers, stopgap agents, stall owners, dealers, grandparents with record collections, eccentrics without portfolios.
    — Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Would love to know what these career eccentrics make of the pomp and pageantry of the Grammys.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
Definition of eccentric
Noun
  • With Mickey 17, Pattinson doubles down (literally) on the crackpot touches and gives Bong’s follow-up to Parasite a true sense of unpredictable, undeniable lunacy.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Of course, centuries of bizarre medical solutions have proven that a small volume of patients can seemingly recover from almost any condition regardless of whatever crackpot solution is administered.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Feb. 2025
Definition of crackpot
Noun
  • The Jones was for the artists, the punks, the weirdos.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The sitcom was already packed with weirdos — Toby Huss' Artie, the Strongest Man in the World, for one — and as Little Pete's bestie Nona, she was slated to play yet another.
    — EW.com, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Definition of weirdo
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