as in romantic
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
idealistic pacifists who thought that tyranny could be toppled by rational argument and mutual understanding
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Recent Examples of idealistic
This is followed by Neptune entering Aries on March 30, potentially blurring boundaries and bringing a more idealistic and compassionate approach to your relationships.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Once Neptune slips into Aries on March 30, things could feel dreamy and idealistic on the homefront, as this inspires you to create a space that feels like a sanctuary.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
However, finding a free market that fully embodies this idealistic form of capitalism is difficult.
—Gabrielle Boko, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
In a forsaken village, the economic opportunities presented by the arrival of wind farms trigger a tragic feud between embittered locals and a couple of idealistic French city-dwellers who have recently moved to the area.
—Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Once Neptune slips into Aries on March 30, things could feel dreamy and idealistic on the homefront, as this inspires you to create a space that feels like a sanctuary.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
However, finding a free market that fully embodies this idealistic form of capitalism is difficult.
—Gabrielle Boko, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
In a forsaken village, the economic opportunities presented by the arrival of wind farms trigger a tragic feud between embittered locals and a couple of idealistic French city-dwellers who have recently moved to the area.
—Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for idealistic
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There’s something inexorably romantic and swashbucklingly adventurous about commercial space travel—about normal people, non-astronauts like you and me, well, being astronauts.—
Raven Smith,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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The Dining Room serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, or arrange for a romantic oceanfront dinner on the beach.—
Cynthia J Drake,
Southern Living,
14 Apr. 2025
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Tapping into the endowment may be impractical for several reasons, including that some of it is legally restricted, but also because some of the unrestricted money is tied up in illiquid assets, such as in hedge funds, private equity and real estate that can’t be easily sold.—
Kara Scannell,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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Blockchain might revolutionize insurance claim processing while proving impractical for emergency communications.—
Chloe Demrovsky,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.—
Carlo Tortora Brayda,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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There would be adverts for iPhones that were utopian with interesting-looking people smiling holding these shiny devices.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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But Scott also looked at German scientific forestry; collective farming in the Soviet Union and Tanzania; utopian city planning in Chandigarh, India, and in Brasília; and Vladimir Lenin’s theories about the formation of revolutionary parties.—
Nikil Saval,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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There is a difference between quixotic and foolish.—
Ilan Stavans,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
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Our devastation of nature is so deep and vast that to reverse its effects, on any front, often entails efforts that are so painstaking and quixotic as to border on the ridiculous.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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“Idealistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idealistic. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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