Definitions for idealists

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IPA: /aɪˈdi ə lɪst/

Idealists is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 452 anagrams from letters in idealists (adeiilsst).

Definitions for idealists

noun

1. a person who cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. Synonyms: optimist, perfectionist, reformer, visionary, utopianist. Antonyms: pragmatist, skeptic, cynic.
2. a visionary or impractical person. Synonyms: romantic, romanticist, dreamer, stargazer. Antonyms: realist, materialist.
3. a person who represents things as they might or should be rather than as they are:
4. a writer or artist who treats subjects imaginatively.
5. a person who accepts the doctrines of philosophical idealism, as by representing things in an ideal form, or as they might or should be rather than as they are.

adjective

1. of or relating to idealism or idealists; idealistic.

Origin of idealists

First recorded in 1695-1705; ideal + -ist

Examples for idealists

Even our open-eyed Jewish idealist has been blest with ignorance of the actual.

It is not an idealist, not a romantic call to ethics of conviction as opposed to ethics of responsibility.

“It is an ideological—no, not ideological, but I am an idealist still, and I think that I can win,” he said.

“The external world,” says the Materialist––“Does not exist,” says the idealist.

“The idealist” Justin Peters, Slate Aaron Swartz wanted to save the world.

Keziah, in spite of her worldly common sense, was an idealist at heart.

Idealism was not very popular, he said, but thank God he was an idealist.

He was a dreamer, an idealist, grounded in the reality he observed around him.

He was an “idealist and a realist at the same time,” said his close friend, the British Diplomat Frank Roberts.

It was the pure love of the idealist and the dreamer––it was divine.