idealist
IPA: aɪdˈiɫɪst
noun
- (philosophy) One who adheres to idealism.
- Someone whose conduct stems from idealism rather than from practicality.
- An unrealistic or impractical visionary.
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Examples of "idealist" in Sentences
- I am the idealistic image of life.
- His son on the other hand was an idealist.
- The idealistic young minister was outraged.
- For idealistic reasons she became the leader.
- The real idealist is a pragmatist and an economist.
- His theory of the world is universal and idealistic.
- I am a dreamer, an idealist, and seeker of the truth.
- The dogmatic idealist denies the existence of matter.
- Also the man who said that Aristotle was an idealist.
- In this chapter the word idealist will be used in several ways.
- As an administrator, he was known as an incorruptible leftist idealist.
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- Long-ago Democratic president Woodrow Wilson, meanwhile, known to most of us as a modestly progressive idealist, is in the right-wing canon America's first fascist ruler.
- In November 1910, Francisco Madero, a young idealist from a wealthy family, supported by ragtag armies under Pancho Villa in the north and Zapata in the south, led a revolt against the Diaz administration.
- In years past, this would be a familiar race between a member of the Albany machine (Mr. DiNapoli entered New York politics at the age of 18) and a young idealist from the lost tribe known as the New York Republicans.
- Their homes and galleries may be all the soul desires; but the instant they venture on the streets of the city, they have left the realm of beauty for an unsightly dominion, where the utilitarian makes the world hideous and survives, and the idealist is banished or exterminated.