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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
Venus is extremely content in idealistic Libra.
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Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 14 Oct. 2025
The trend for the last twenty years is for a Balkanized internet—not the idealistic worldwide web, but local internet without much access to the outside.
—Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s film follows the story of Ainara, an idealistic and brilliant 17-year-old whose family hopes will soon choose a university degree.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
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Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 14 Oct. 2025
The trend for the last twenty years is for a Balkanized internet—not the idealistic worldwide web, but local internet without much access to the outside.
—Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s film follows the story of Ainara, an idealistic and brilliant 17-year-old whose family hopes will soon choose a university degree.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for idealistic
Adjective
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During the podcast, Paris revealed that the pair's relationship began to break down six months before their eventual split amid fan speculation about a romantic relationship between Powell and Sweeney.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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The season concludes on a romantic and hopeful note for Noah and Joanne.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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If there’s a force majeure clause in the new rights contracts that allows the NBA’s media partners to temporarily halt running sportsbook ads when an unforeseeable event makes such airings impractical, it’s hidden under a tide of black ink.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Robots have become indispensable in environments where high radiation or structural complexity makes human intervention dangerous or impractical.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Wish-casting a better result for a confrontation in a different place, Vindman suppresses how much and how often America antagonized Russia through its idealist actions, rather than realist inaction.—
Samuel Moyn,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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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
Adjective
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Necessary for doctrinal shifts—but needs to be grounded to avoid utopian overreach.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Oct. 2025
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In times of uncertainty, particularly under the growing threat of totalitarianism, utopian fantasies provide a way to reflect on the situation and, potentially, outline a path toward a positive outcome.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Broadly fighting wind power statewide with a 12-mile-wide brush may be, in this mindset, the definition of quixotic.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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That a war was on, or latent, or menacing during the whole shooting period set the quixotic mood in which most of the obstacles were confronted.—
Susan Sontag,
Vogue,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Idealistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idealistic. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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