Word Meanings - IDEALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations. 2. One who holds the doctrine of idealism.

Related words: (words related to IDEALIST)

• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• 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
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• ROMANTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• ROMANTICNESS
  The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.
• PICTURESQUE
  Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as,
• ROMANTICLY
  Romantically. Strype.
• DOCTRINE
  1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or
• ROMANTICISM
  A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi He may be said to have begun the
• NECROMANTIC; NECROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.
• HYDROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to divination by water.
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• ASTROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrologic. Dr. H. More.
• PYROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to pyromancy.
• CHIROMANTIC; CHIROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to chiromancy.
• PSEUDO-ROMANTIC
  Falsely romantic. The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage. De Quincey.
• MONROE DOCTRINE
  See DOCTRINE
• ENDOCTRINE
  To teach; to indoctrinate. Donne.
• NECROMANTIC
  Conjuration. With all the necromantics of their art. Young.