Definition of ideal

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Ideal (a.) Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty..

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Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal.
Idealess :: Idealess (a.) Destitute of an idea.
Immaterialism :: Immaterialism (n.) The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism..
Ideal :: Ideal (a.) Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge..
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult..
Phantom :: Phantom (n.) That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.
Berkeleian :: Berkeleian (a.) Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy..
Plane :: Plane (a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator..
Realism :: Realism (n.) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative..
Idealogue :: Idealogue (n.) One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator.
Idealist :: Idealist (n.) One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.
Unreal :: Unreal (a.) Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
Idealize :: Idealize (v. t.) To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life..
Distance :: Distance (n.) Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety.
Materialist :: Materialist (n.) One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it..
Realism :: Realism (n.) Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact..
Hyoideal :: Hyoideal (a.) Alt. of Hyoidea.
Ideal :: Ideal (a.) Imaginary.
Poetize :: Poetize (v. i.) To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize.
Imagination :: Imagination (n.) The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal..
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