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Quixotic:
- Idealistic (visionary) but Impractical
- Extravagantly chivalrous or romantic
- Impulsive and often rashly unpredictable
Pronounced as Quick + Zo + Tick
Derived from the character “Don Quixote“. 
Situational Uses:
- The quixotic stranger took to the street fight despite being totally uninvolved in either of the gangs.
- The princess dumped her sickeningly quixotic wooer and ran off with the court jester.
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I am a bit quixotic. One small addendum to your demonstration is that “quixotic” seems to imply chasing after a noble ideal, so maybe his head would be in the clouds from chasing after “world-saving schemes” or the like.