Antonym: realistic. Similar words: idealist, realistic, cabalistic, fatalistic, pluralistic, ritualistic, materialistic, idealize. Meaning: [aɪ‚dɪə'lɪstɪk] 
adj. 1. of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas 2. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style.
adj. 1. of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas 2. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style. 
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1. The scheme was criticized as too idealistic and impracticable.
2. I don't think her idealistic plans will ever materialise.
3. I don't think her idealistic plans will ever materialize.
4. Idealistic young people died for the cause.
5. It'seemed to an idealistic and illusory dream.
6. He set forth an idealistic view of society.
7. She's still young and idealistic.
8. The drama takes an idealistic, even a naive view of the subject.
9. When I was young and idealistic I believed it was possible to change the world.
10. People say that students are by definition idealistic and impatient.
11. But because it was idealistic it was the more persuasive when he preached it to his young contemporaries.
12. He seems increasingly to distrust the idealistic visions of humanity that typify his early works.
13. Anna was a fiercely idealistic woman whose prematurely white hair flared like flame from her freckled face.
14. Voters have tossed out the coalition of young, idealistic, inexperienced and fractious liberal parties that won in 1996.
15. The years of being branded impulsive, scatterbrained, too idealistic rushed back to mock her.
16. The idealistic arm of animal protectionism also includes its fair share of extremists, such as the now infamous Animal Liberation Front.
17. Smith was realistic about human nature and idealistic about the necessity for the exercise of conscience in the marketplace.
18. One can be more idealistic by valuing the restlessness that can be found in certain dedicated scholars.
19. The significance of adolescent idealistic feelings for adolescent behavior are explored later in this chapter in the discussion of adolescent egocentrism.
20. Law was seen as a noble profession, and idealistic young people flooded our law schools with applications.
21. In business, the pragmatic approach to problems is often more successful than an idealistic one.
22. The harshness of recent reality disenchanted her of her idealistic hopes.
23. It would be very easy to become starry-eyed and idealistic about the land ownership study.
24. Henry, who later became the amiable vicar of Cannington, was never a likely recruit to idealistic schemes for emigration.
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25. One of these was Roslyn. During her adolescence she had been deeply and profoundly idealistic.
26. Open admissions proved to be a chastening experience for some of the most idealistic people at City College.
27. There is no sense of possible anticlimax when reality cuts across Kemp's idealistic view of the girl.
28. An even higher dropout rate, 28. 1 percent, correlated with those who were especially idealistic and people-oriented.
29. John Ridd's sense of honour is practical as well as idealistic and his motives are relevant outside their historical context.
30. Athenian politics will be the poorer without this charming and peculiarly idealistic buccaneer.
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