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
And how did an idealistic protest for protecting Black lives turn into a circle of silence surrounding the killing of a Black teenager?
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NPR, 4 June 2026
The best of them are idiosyncratic and idealistic in the extreme.
—Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
Young, idealistic people who saw Hal as a mentor and would have followed him into any battle.
—Debora Cahn, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
The first trilogy is an idealistic tale.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
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NPR, 4 June 2026
The best of them are idiosyncratic and idealistic in the extreme.
—Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
Young, idealistic people who saw Hal as a mentor and would have followed him into any battle.
—Debora Cahn, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
The first trilogy is an idealistic tale.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for idealistic
Adjective
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Throw out your romantic rulebook!—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
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One concerns a romantic dream come true that becomes a bit of a nightmare.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2026
Adjective
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The trouble was that their official away shirts provided by Le Coq Sportif were made of a very heavy fabric, wildly impractical given the game kicked off at noon under the blazing Mexico City sun.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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Those experiments were once widely dismissed as impractical, and Joby has faced similar skepticism.—
Randy Tucker,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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Sagittarius is an idealist sign that can totally relate to this tale of enduring relationships.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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The contact with and dependence on such support arguably also bolstered art’s worldliness and acted as an antidote to the petit bourgeois affinity for idealist mystification.—
Diedrich Diederichsen,
Artforum,
1 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Le Guin depicts an alternative society much like humanity, but with one notable, utopian contingent.—
Brianne Kane,
Scientific American,
12 June 2026
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For all their speed-to-market and trend obsessions, fashion companies struggle to update the systems and materials that go into their products, meaning churn reigns and improvements are consigned to that oft-uttered utopian destination known as ‘when there’s time’.—
Brooke Roberts-Islam,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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“Idealistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idealistic. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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