as in romantic
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
From Ladders To Landscapes Many Gen Z employees are being called idealistic.
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Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
An idealistic commitment for the poet named after a grenade, one that wouldn’t last.
—Ed Simon
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
The Coproduction Office title follows an idealistic young Soviet prosecutor who comes across a letter written by a prisoner.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 19 May 2025
Domhnall Gleeson plays idealistic journalist Ned Sampson.
—Peter White, Deadline, 12 May 2025
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Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
An idealistic commitment for the poet named after a grenade, one that wouldn’t last.
—Ed Simon
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
The Coproduction Office title follows an idealistic young Soviet prosecutor who comes across a letter written by a prisoner.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 19 May 2025
Domhnall Gleeson plays idealistic journalist Ned Sampson.
—Peter White, Deadline, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for idealistic
Adjective
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The coming-of-age romantic television series based on the popular book trilogy of the same name by Jenny Han will premiere on Amazon Prime Video next week.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
9 July 2025
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Moreover, in romantic relationships, those who self-distanced were more likely to problem-solve constructively and less likely to escalate conflicts.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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Aside from being impractical, the new importation strategy would leave America’s drug supply vulnerable to dangerous counterfeit medicines from abroad.—
Sally C. Pipes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 July 2025
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However, for many travelers who take only one or two flights a year, that's impractical advice.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.—
Carlo Tortora Brayda,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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People always wanted more-more-more from Sly, based on the utopian promises of his songs.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
10 June 2025
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That all sounds very woolly and, in a way, utopian.—
Kevin Giraud,
Variety,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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František, the more optimistic and quixotic of the two, has spent the last 20 years attempting to build a flying perpetuum machine — daydreamy compensation, perhaps, for having lost an arm in a sawmill accident decades before.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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Trump also hinted that a deal with Harvard was imminent, but some Harvard faculty worried about the terms of a prospective deal appearing to look like capitulation, while others worried that the university’s battle over purist principles of academic freedom was quixotic and too costly.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
7 July 2025
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“Idealistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idealistic. Accessed 17 Jul. 2025.
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