Word Meanings - IDEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imaginary. Syn. -- Intellectual; mental; visionary; fanciful; imaginary; unreal; impracticable; utopian. (more info) 1. Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge. 2. Reaching an imaginary standard

Additional info about word: IDEAL

Imaginary. Syn. -- Intellectual; mental; visionary; fanciful; imaginary; unreal; impracticable; utopian. (more info) 1. Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge. 2. Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty. Byron. There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence. Rambler. 3. Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal. "Planning ideal common wealth." Southey. 4. Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IDEAL)

• Imaginative
• Creative
• conceptive
• ideal
• poetical
• romantic
• inventive
• original
• Metaphysical
• Mental
• intellectual
• abstract
• Ideal
• conceptional
• subjective
• relational
• notional
• abstruse
• psychical
• Moral
• spiritual
• ethical
• probable
• inferential
• presumptive
• analogous
• virtuous
• well-conducted

Related words: (words related to IDEAL)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• MORALIST
  1. One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison. 2. One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules;
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• MORALIZE
  1. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak. 2. To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• MORALIZATION
  1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse. 2. Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.
• ABSTRUSELY
  In an abstruse manner.
• INTELLECTUALIST
  1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
• METAPHYSICALLY
  In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• CONCEPTIONAL
  Pertaining to conception.
• MORAL
  1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners,
• IDEALOGUE
  One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. Mrs. Browning.
• CONCEPTIVE
  Capable of conceiving. Sir T. Browne
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• SPIRITUALISTIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
• IDEALISM
  The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being ideal. 2. Conception
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• OMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• ALIMENTALLY
  So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• RE-CREATIVE
  Creating anew; as, re-creative power.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• PIGMENTAL; PIGMENTARY
  Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration , a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• REGIMENTALS
  The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
• DEMORALIZATION
  The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.