idealistic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
idealistic
    adj 1: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the
           reality of ideas [syn: {ideal}, {idealistic}]
    2: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or
       style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown
       ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand
       purpose" [syn: {exalted}, {elevated}, {sublime}, {grand},
       {high-flown}, {high-minded}, {lofty}, {rarefied}, {rarified},
       {idealistic}, {noble-minded}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Idealistic \I*de`al*is"tic\, a.
   Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "idealistic":
      Berkeleian, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Hegelian, Kantian,
      Megarian, Neoplatonic, Neoplatonistic, Platonic, Platonistic,
      Stoic, airy, animist, animistic, atomistic, autistic, big,
      bighearted, chivalrous, cosmotheistic, dereistic, eclectic,
      elevated, empirical, eudaemonistic, exalted, existential, generous,
      great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hedonic, hedonist,
      hedonistic, heroic, high, high-minded, humanist, humanistic,
      idealist, immaterialist, impractical, in the clouds,
      instrumentalist, knightly, largehearted, liberal, lofty,
      magnanimous, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic,
      naturalistic, noble, noble-minded, nominalist, openhanded,
      optimistic, otherworldly, panlogistical, panpsychist,
      panpsychistic, pantheistic, poetic, positivist, positivistic,
      pragmatic, pragmatist, princely, quixotic, rationalistic, realist,
      realistic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, scholastic,
      sensationalistic, solipsistic, spiritualist, spiritualistic,
      starry-eyed, storybook, sublime, syncretistic, theistic,
      transcendental, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic,
      transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, utilitarian, visionary,
      vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, wish-fulfilling

    

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