SENTIMENTALIST Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

sentimentalist

noun

Definition of sentimentalist

as in idealist

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Recent Examples of sentimentalist That appeals to the sentimentalist in me. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2026

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Noun

At its core, Dark Matter is a series about the folly and hubris of humankind, even when — nay, especially when — idealists have the power to achieve transformative change.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Fairness With Conditions Schulz is careful not to present himself as an idealist.

— Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of idealist

Noun

Upon arrival, the girls find a community of ravers and psychedelic rockers, romantics and orgiastics, shamans who serve as doctors, and poets who believe themselves to be prophets.

— Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
Many researchers and romantics alike believe this could be one of the earliest depictions of human affection.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of romantic

Noun

The Holbrook sisters are undersocialized and inexperienced with the world, and Herzog sees them as figures out of a fable, dreamers who talk incessantly about love and seem connected to the elemental and the ancient.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
San Francisco Playhouse is currently presenting the musical, helmed by company artistic director Bill English (with Phaedra Tillery-Boughton credited as associate director) and starring Ella Ruth Francis as the indefatigable dreamer Tracy Turnblad.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of dreamer

Noun

The tax revolt was a successful attempt by a small group of ideologues to capitalize on people’s justifiable anger at the cost-of-living crisis that followed the war in Vietnam, along with California’s runaway home prices.

— Maggie McGowan, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
But hospitality ideologues like Guidara and Meyer never like to talk about what happens when that selflessness becomes self-destructive.

— Adam Reiner, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of ideologue

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