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/aɪdˈilɪst/ Listen

noun

Idealist n.

One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.

One who holds the doctrine of idealism, in any sense. In senses 4 and 5 of idealism, opposed to realist.

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Etymology of 'Idealist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Idealist" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the dreamer, the idealist, to whom it is enough to want a thing to see that thing forthwith come into being. His imagination, stimulated by the image of the charming stenographer, rushed forth on the wildest of flights. He realized for the first time that he was a free man; while, as for Comrade Evelyn, suppose ...

— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair

... back at the Weatherbys' Sally asked her if she and Amory had had a "time" in the den. Isabelle turned to her quietly. In her eyes was the light of the idealist, the inviolate dreamer of ...

— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... rolled past them both, Catie the young materialist and potential tyrant, and Scott Brenton the idealist. The years carried the children out of the perpetual holidays of infancy and into the treadmill of schooling that begins with b, a, ba and sometimes never ends. Side by side, the two small youngsters entered the low doorway of the primary school; side by side, a few years later, ...

— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray

... that m'self!" said Mrs. Beasley, the wife of the Grange storekeeper. She had heard no such thing, but Mrs. Beasley was an idealist of no mean order, and she at once got a feeling about the matter that was little short of knowledge, and went on with headlong impetus, "I've heard that m'self. Yes, he's ...

— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young

... idealist neglects his outward appearance," her good-natured glance, half-apologetic, ...

— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau

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