quixote

noun

Definition of quixotenext
as in maverick

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quixote
  1. maverick
  2. screwball
  3. nonconformist
  4. kook
  5. codger
  6. eccentric
  7. crackpot
  8. weirdo
Noun
  • The odds were stacked against Britain until a group of renegade, maverick soldiers (the SAS Rogue Heroes) decided to fight against a more powerful enemy in a new way.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Trump backing TikTok is something of a maverick position in Washington.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of maverick
Noun
  • Imagine all those ideas on identity, fate, talent, libido, and self-referential consciousness in the screwball comedy Being John Malkovich remade into a movie musical about British pop star Robbie Williams.
    Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2025
  • If screwball comedies provided the comic escape people needed in the Great Depression, these days some Americans want to scream.
    Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of screwball
Noun
  • Invariably, memorials devoted to these two nonconformists emphasized their complicated personalities.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 3 July 2024
  • The uniform and the nonconformist.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Aug. 2022
Definition of nonconformist
Noun
  • For the pogues and kooks who've already torn through the first half of the new season of Outer Banks, season 4 part 2 is on its way.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Although there’s truly nothing as important as spending time in the water, there are some things that will make the process of going from a complete kook to a proficient beginner less of a chore.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
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
  • My dedication, to help the waifs and strays and eccentrics of the music world together, continues to this day.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Robert Redford delivers folksy wisdom as a local eccentric who once had his own dragon encounter, and even Karl Urban’s greedy logger is more of a nuisance than an outright villain.
    Josh Bell, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of eccentric
Noun
  • Lucius becomes a slave and is in the charge of crafty Macrinus, and soon becomes entertainment for the masses and two dangerously crackpot twin Roman emperors — Geta (Joseph Quinn) and Caracalla (Fred Hechinger).
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Those may sound like the Luddite ravings of a crackpot who breached security at an IEEE conference.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2014
Definition of crackpot
Noun
  • Jiraiya Look, yes, Jiraiya is a bit of a creepy weirdo, but as a mentor for Naruto, there really couldn't be a better choice.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
  • There have been few depictions of Dracula as a true weirdo — a guy who lurks in the corner and makes unsolicited comments about the beauty of Harker’s wife’s neck — but Schreck’s portrayal of Dracula as a wealthy foreign invader is essential to the cinematic history of the count.
    Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of weirdo
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