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idealistic

[ahy-dee-uh-lis-tik, ahy-dee-uh-]

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adjective

of or pertaining to idealism or idealists.

Also, i·de·al·is·ti·cal.

Origin:
1820–30; idealist + -ic

Related forms

i·de·al·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb

an·ti-i·de·al·is·tic, adjective

an·ti-i·de·al·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb

hy·per·i·de·al·is·tic, adjective

hy·per·i·de·al·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb

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non·i·de·al·is·tic, adjective

non·i·de·al·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb

o·ver·i·de·al·is·tic, adjective

qua·si-i·de·al·is·tic, adjective

qua·si-i·de·al·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb

un·i·de·al·is·tic, adjective

un·i·de·al·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb

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Idealistic has a plethora of syllables.

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the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).

opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.

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Example Sentences

He intends to shock, but there was a gentle and idealistic side to him.

At this stage, be idealistic about what is possible, and realistic about what you need.

Few people will bother to learn a language on abstract or idealistic grounds, she says.

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He intends to shock, but there was a gentle and idealistic side to him.

At this stage, be idealistic about what is possible, and realistic about what you need.

Few people will bother to learn a language on abstract or idealistic grounds, she says.

And you know, although it sounds a little idealistic.

It is an idealistic vision, but self-interest is involved as well.

With memories of picket signs and protests, many recall their outrageous behavior during that idealistic time.

There are many many lawyers who work for non profits and do so for idealistic reasons.

The aims of intervening there are both humanitarian and idealistic but also political and pragmatic.

Let us hope that architects' next idealistic impulse will be rather more successful.

It's the way he's gone about acquiring it all, and the offbeat, often idealistic ways he chooses to spend it.

It's a sad and sorry state, but as the person said above, you don't pay your bills and eat by being idealistic.

We have always been an idealistic people bound by pragmatism.

These things matter when you view yourself as an idealistic reformer of the business world.

There was the confused and overly idealistic moralism.

My suggestions for personal changes were clearly idealistic.

Idealistic scientific thinking fell out of favor by the end of the nineteenth century.

Sometimes folks in education get to be a little idealistic.

She knew me as a soft touch for an idealistic underdog.

But hu's words and actions directly led to the death of a shockingly naive and idealistic young person who viewed hu as a mentor.

And you'd have these young, idealistic people starting schools, working for pennies.

Young and idealistic eco-warriors, meanwhile, rolled their eyes in droll disbelief.

It focuses around a young and idealistic alcoholic, who has an.

It is all too easy for a mission statement to become a bland idealistic blur, as in this.

The film itself is a well-meaning if heavy-handed tale of six idealistic young boys whom come to the rescue of a buffalo herd.

But a new rights movement-complete with idealistic local and.

But my point is that in their investments they don't seem to be aiming for that idealistic goal.

What fun and how brave of these teacher-artists to involve themselves in such an idealistic venture.

History's cycles turned against all that was idealistic and good.

What then is the relationship between an idealistic transcendent no.

Boudreau as an ambitious and idealistic student who was flustered by the demands of an intoxicated college president.

Over time, marriage has increasingly taken on a meaning of life-journey and idealistic rather than pragmatic significance.

Of course, the last paragraph can be dismissed as idealistic.

The general public tends to see them as uniformly altruistic, idealistic and independent.

Take the productive role instead of the idealistic one and you will produce results not vacillation.

Again, practical and idealistic considerations are reinforcing each other.

They aren't idealistic or more committed to anything than anyone else.

What prompts the leap from idealistic thought to violent action is largely a matter for conjecture.

But they do work in the real world, not an idealistic one.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

idealism (aɪˈdɪəˌlɪzəm)

—n
1.	belief in or pursuance of ideals
2.	the tendency to represent things in their ideal forms, rather than as they are
3.	materialism Compare dualism any of a group of philosophical doctrines that share the monistic view that material objects and the external world do not exist in reality independently of the human mind but are variously creations of the mind or constructs of ideas

i'dealist

—n

ideal'istic

—*adj*

ideal'istically

—*adv*

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