Idealistic

adj

adj ·5 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to an idealist or to idealism.

    "But if, as we have seen, Wu's ambivalent attitude toward the conventional route to success originated in his early appreciation of the idealistic virtues of his father, then it is possible that parts of the work could have been written much earlier, perhaps even during his sojourn with his father in Chiang-su."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas wordnet

Synonyms

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academicairyanimistanimisticaspirationalaspirational values

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"Now that idealistic obscurantism has become a major "theoretical" means for the warmongers, Lenin's critique of the bourgeois philosophy of the early twentieth century has acquired particular relevance."

Etymology

From idealist + -ic or ideal + -istic.

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