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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective idealistic has 2 senses
- idealistic(a = adj.pert) ideal - of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas; Array Derived form noun idealism1
- idealistic(s = adj.all) elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime - of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose" Derived form noun idealism3
THESAURUS
idealistic
Berkeleian, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Hegelian, Kantian, Megarian, Neoplatonic, Neoplatonistic, Platonic, Platonistic, Stoic, airy, animist, animistic, atomistic, autistic, big, bighearted, chivalrous, cosmotheistic, dereistic, eclectic, elevated, empirical, eudaemonistic, exalted, existential, generous, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, heroic, high, high-minded, humanist, humanistic, idealist, immaterialist, impractical, in the clouds, instrumentalist, knightly, largehearted, liberal, lofty, magnanimous, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, noble, noble-minded, nominalist, openhanded, optimistic, otherworldly, panlogistical, panpsychist, panpsychistic, pantheistic, poetic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, princely, quixotic, rationalistic, realist, realistic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, scholastic, sensationalistic, solipsistic, spiritualist, spiritualistic, starry-eyed, storybook, sublime, syncretistic, theistic, transcendental, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, utilitarian, visionary, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, wish-fulfilling
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