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having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
idealistic pacifists who thought that tyranny could be toppled by rational argument and mutual understanding
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Recent Examples of idealistic
Your 8th House of Shared Resources steadies as informative Mercury trines idealistic Jupiter in your quiet 12th house.
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Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2026
Which is certainly an admirable approach, albeit a rather idealistic strategy in a state of nearly 23 million voters, spread over roughly 800 miles from north to south.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
Curiosity widens your world as idealistic Venus moves through your 9th House of Philosophy, trining optimistic Jupiter in your thoughtful sign.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2026
And he was frustrated with himself, realizing he had been taken in by the idealistic missions of tech companies, which pledged to use their transformative power to make the world better for everyone.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for idealistic
Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2026
Which is certainly an admirable approach, albeit a rather idealistic strategy in a state of nearly 23 million voters, spread over roughly 800 miles from north to south.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
Curiosity widens your world as idealistic Venus moves through your 9th House of Philosophy, trining optimistic Jupiter in your thoughtful sign.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2026
And he was frustrated with himself, realizing he had been taken in by the idealistic missions of tech companies, which pledged to use their transformative power to make the world better for everyone.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for idealistic
Adjective
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Struggling in your creative or romantic life?—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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The couple first met in 2006 at the SAG Awards, when Silver was working as a makeup artist, and continued to cross paths throughout the years, building a professional relationship, which then turned romantic after his partner, Michelle Triola, died in 2009.—
Lori A Bashian , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
22 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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At one point, Mariani considered making the lodging his own home, but once his family grew to include three children, the idea proved impractical.—
Leonora Epstein,
Architectural Digest,
19 Mar. 2026
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Repeatedly promoting the scientific but impractical viewpoint of neurologists and sleep experts completely ignores how humans live in the real world.—
Letters to the Editor,
Washington Post,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Sagittarius is an idealist sign that can totally relate to this tale of enduring relationships.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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The contact with and dependence on such support arguably also bolstered art’s worldliness and acted as an antidote to the petit bourgeois affinity for idealist mystification.—
Diedrich Diederichsen,
Artforum,
1 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Even if all mathematicians agreed with Litt’s decidedly utopian take on this thought experiment, the current situation is far from that lofty ideal—as evidenced by First Proof’s first round.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
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The utopian side of Christiania is shown through the residents’ resistance against the government trying to shut them down in the mid-1970s.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Idealistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idealistic. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.
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