SENTIMENTALIST Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

sentimentalist

noun

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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

Doug Gibson, the novel’s closest thing to an idealist, is a pugilistic criminal-defense lawyer, the kind with ads on bus-stop benches.

— Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
The campaign, which has highlighted divides over support for Israel, is a show for moderates against progressives, insiders against outsiders and pragmatists against idealists.

— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of idealist

Noun

Starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro, the rom-com follows two hopeless romantics who spark a connection on the one night of the year singles are legally allowed to have sex.

— Jack Dunn, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
Relative obscurity followed and, whatever success Baldini subsequently earned — such as promotion to Serie B with Pescara in 2024 — came as a kind of anti-establishment figure and diehard football romantic.

— James Horncastle, New York Times, 28 July 2026

Definition of romantic

Noun

According to Rouse, the album grew out of observations gathered while traveling, with its songs populated by drifters, dreamers and fleeting encounters that blur the line between fiction and autobiography.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2026
But in recent history, the Spanish national soccer team has repeatedly wrecked the plans of dreamers and screenwriters.

— Filip Bondy, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026

Definition of dreamer

Noun

Even after a string of recent victories in congressional primaries by members of the Democratic Socialists of America, national Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
For the rest, Lina Ghotmeh is not an ideologue, in contrast to what French architecture seems increasingly to be moving toward.

— TIME, Time, 1 July 2026

Definition of ideologue

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