quixotic
kwik-SOT-ikadjMeaning hopelessly idealistic and impractical, in a noble or romantic way
Memory hook QUICK-SHOT: a brave shot at the impossible. Sami builds a cardboard rocket to fly to the moon by Friday. It’s a brave, noble shot at the impossible: his plan is quixotic.
His quixotic plan was to clean every beach in the state by himself.
In context Kai’s plan to buy a warm bed for every stray dog in the state with his lemonade money was quixotic: noble, determined and completely doomed.
Similar idealistic, impractical, romantic, unrealistic
Opposite practical, pragmatic, realistic
From Don Quixote, the hero of a famous Spanish novel of the early 1600s, who rode out to fight windmills that he believed were giants.