Meanings
adjectiveunquixotic (comparative more unquixotic, superlative most unquixotic)
comparative more unquixotic · superlative most unquixotic
- 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 21 more example
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
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