idealistic English

Meaning idealistic meaning

What does idealistic mean?

idealistic

— adjective (= ideal) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas

— adjective (= exalted, elevated, grand, high-flown, lofty) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style an exalted ideal argue in terms of high-flown ideals — Oliver Franks a noble and lofty concept a grand purpose

Synonyms idealistic synonyms

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idealist

visionary

sublime

starry-eyed

romantic

rarified

rarefied

noble-minded

lofty

ideal

high-minded

high-flown

grand

exalted

elevated

dreamy

wild-eyed

unrealistic

susceptible

sentimental

quixotic

principled

impractical

imaginary

ideological

emotional

Topics idealistic topics

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Extreme belief

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Simple sentences

Outsiders tend to scoff at Esperanto as an idealistic waste of time.

The Americans are a sentimental people who, under all its realism, is very prone to idealistic ideas.

Unbelievable cultural decline, stupendous ignorance, idealistic rubbish, and obscurantism find their strongest support among American reactionaries.

You're too idealistic.

Movie subtitles

Youthful, passionate, idealistic.

Then you go on an idealistic binge.

To be idealistic at this moment would be incongruous.

So when you start judging an idealistic, dreamy-eyed kid by the bar-room, Benzedrine standards of this megalomaniac society, I won't have it!

This devotion is idealistic. Your youth! But it isn't love.

You can't be idealistic all your life.

There's the idealistic Dr Vogler who practices medicine according to Mesmer's doubtful methods.

But now I see that it was an idealistic miscalculation.

Sensible, practical, adventurous, pleasant, idealistic. - it was surprisingly hard choosing from so many facial types.

He was prematurely unmasked by self-abuse perversity idealistic as a consequence.

I believe that for many of us. there are idealistic motives which are even more important.

We all agree on the idealistic motives.

You're an idealistic dreamer.

Tough and idealistic!

But in all that idealistic fervor, nobody thought to take care of Lisinski.

You can't be idealistic.

Well, I guess he was just too idealistic.

There's little conflict in our country between the generations because our youth know that we share their idealistic zeal.

He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan. on some damn-fool idealistic crusade, like your father did.

A system of government based on rule of the majority. somewhat idealistic, but functional.

Sometimes I honestly think that that boy is incapable of doing anything, except give idealistic speeches and write novels that'll never be published.

Maybe I'm too idealistic. And don't tell me I'm wrong to be.

You're a special, idealistic type.

He wanted it to flee to South America, where, in his own idealistic way, he'd help finance a mercenary army to eliminate Jews, blacks, Chinese and Indians.

You're too damned idealistic.

Whatever the ideological or idealistic traits of its expression, culture is an essential factor in the historical process of the oppressed society.

And so the United States' young and idealistic leader was mourned by people all over the world and laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery.

All of our generation - idealistic fools.

I played Tom Baxter with a kind of a poetic, idealistic quality that just.

He was dropping pearls of wisdom on young, idealistic students.

Yeah, kind of too idealistic, never make any money on a thing like that.

You might as well get rid of those cute visions that Soapy put into your idealistic college heads.

He is young and idealistic.

News and current affairs

Greece's idealistic new leaders seem to believe that they can overpower bureaucratic opposition without the usual compromises and obfuscations, simply by brandishing their democratic mandate.

The idealistic internationalism of the early postwar years is collapsing fast.

Was the dream of a unified Europe - inspired by fears of another European war, and sustained by the idealistic hope that nation-states were obsolete and would give way to good Europeans - a utopian dead end?

The European project, as idealistic as it was, was always a top-down endeavor.

This vision of the world may seem idealistic.

There was a time when global elites could comfort themselves with the thought that opposition to the world trading regime consisted of violent anarchists, self-serving protectionists, trade unionists, and ignorant, if idealistic youth.

The Cold War, however, soon made Article 9 seem excessively idealistic, at least to some.

Bringing such an integrated world may be optimistic, even idealistic, but it is hardly naive.

Farmers would gain a sense of ownership in counter-narcotics efforts, in sharp contrast to the current idealistic - and evidently un-achievable - policy of crop eradication.

If that idealistic democrat Nehru had not been cremated, India's stance toward Burma might cause him to turn over in his grave.

Sadly, it seems to be another case of America's insecurity about its global influence trumping its idealistic rhetoric - this time possibly undermining an important opportunity to strengthen Asia's developing economies.

Speaking in clear, declarative sentences, Sanders sets forth an idealistic conception of government policy that appeals to a great many people on the growing left of the Democratic Party.

Is the European center currently too naive, or too idealistic?

This vision of Europe is not idealistic; it is simply concerned with how Europeanization can benefit Italians.

In the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, I was lucky enough to meet young idealistic Russians like Nemtsov.

Much of the credit for this goes to the Japanese themselves and to the idealistic, left-leaning New Dealers in MacArthur's government who supported them.

Is this too idealistic, and thus unattainable?

Out of the ashes of war a new kind of Europe arose, as did a new kind of Japan, which even had a pacifist constitution (written by idealistic Americans, but gratefully accepted by most Japanese).

I want to stand up and shout loudly for the fact that there are so many young people who are incredibly idealistic, who do believe that poverty can become history, who believe that it is possible to have a world without war.

MELBOURNE - There is nothing like exposure to smart and idealistic young people to make jaded and world-weary policymakers and commentators feel better about the future.