Word Meanings - IDEALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2. (more info) 1. To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.

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• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• IDEALOGUE
  One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. Mrs. Browning.
• TREATABLY
  In a treatable manner.
• 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
• TREAT
  To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
• TREATER
  One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• IDEALOGIC
  Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• IDEALESS
  Destitute of an idea.
• VALUE
  Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything. An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power
• IDEALLY
  In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.
• IDEALIST
  1. One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations. 2. One who holds the doctrine of idealism.
• TREATURE
  Treatment. Fabyan.
• IDEALITY
  The conceptive faculty. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being ideal. 2. The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.
• VALUER
  One who values; an appraiser.
• TREATABLE
  Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.
• IDEALIZATION
  The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal. (more info) 1. The act or process of idealizing.
• TREATISER
  One who writes a treatise.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• UNDERVALUE
  1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this
• INTREAT
  See SPENSER
• MISTREAT
  To treat amiss; to abuse.
• OUTVALUE
  To exceed in value. Boyle.