sisyphean, futile, idiosyncratic, chimerical, hubristic, dilettantish, foolhardy, iconoclastic, idealistic, audacious, harebrained, laudable, misguided, grandiose, preposterous, eccentric, maladroit, indefatigable, loopy, vainglorious, improbable, peculiar, absurd, megalomaniacal, utopian, jejune, transcendentalist, bizarre, implausible, unsuccessful, ineffectual, noble, fanciful, dunderheaded, laughable, fruitless, admirable, wrongheaded, swiftian, peripatetic, farfetched, wishful, delusory, picaresque, autodidactic, unorthodox, plausible, obsessive, hopeless, nonsensical, outre, ambitious, crackpot, digressive, commonsensical, impolitic, deconstructionist, nutty, unpoetic, softheaded, circuitous, overdetermined, inscrutable, kooky, solipsistic, sententious, antithetical, prolix, incongruous, unfocused, obtuse, tawdrier, foolish, misbegotten, oddball, ludicrous, outlandish, grandiloquent, prosaic, fatuous, rhapsodic, simpleminded, daffy, diffident, resistible, doctrinaire, irksome, unpromising, nerdish, schoolmarmish, unpolitical, cynical, pragmatic, perfervid, comical, peevish, messianic, idealist, feckless, monomaniacal, zany, loony, chivalrous, promethean, chivalric, daring, altruistic, conceived, singleminded, unpractical, reckless, bold, courageous, desperate, faustian, impracticable, mad

knight errantry, quixotically, quixotism

impractical, romantic, wild-eyed