idealizer

one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world an idealizer, she thinks that any convicted criminal is capable of being redeemed by the love of a good woman Synonyms Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealist, ideologue (also idealogue), romantic, romanticist, utopian, visionaryRelated Words emotionalist, sentimentalist; daydreamer, fantasizer, woolgatherer; Micawber, optimist, Pollyanna; do-gooder, reformer; perfectionist; doctrinaire, theorist, thinkerNear Antonyms cynic, defeatist, pessimist; empiric, empiricistAntonyms hardnose, pragmatist, realist