Idealist Definition

ī-dēə-lĭst
idealists
noun
idealists
A person whose behavior or thought is based on ideals.
Webster's New World
An artist or writer whose work is imbued with idealism.
American Heritage
One who follows his or her ideals to the point of impracticality; visionary or dreamer.
Webster's New World
An adherent or practitioner of idealism in art or philosophy.
Webster's New World

Someone whose conduct stems from idealism rather than from practicality.

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adjective

Idealistic.

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Other Word Forms of Idealist

Noun

Singular:
idealist
Plural:
idealists

Origin of Idealist

  • From French idéaliste, from Late Latin idealis (“ideal”), from Latin idea (“idea”).

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Idealist Sentence Examples

  • To speak technically, it is an idealist monism."

  • He was a psychological idealist and a metaphysical realist.

  • Emma (played by Miriam McDonald) is an intelligent, strong-willed idealist.

  • Realist make him almost if not quite intuitionalist; while there is also an idealist reading possible.

  • The Arabians, on the contrary, emphasized the idealist aspect which had been adopted and promoted by the NeoPlatonist commentators.

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