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  • 1. idealist
  • Rhymes with Idealist
  • Idealist in a sentence
  • Quotes about Idealist
Table of Contents
  • 1. idealist
  • Rhymes with Idealist
  • Idealist in a sentence
  • Quotes about Idealist
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology

1. idealist

noun. ['aɪˈdiːlɪst'] someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations.

Synonyms

  • Don Quixote
  • dreamer
  • romantic

Antonyms

  • unloving
  • classicist
  • practical

Etymology

  • idéaliste (French)
  • idealis (Latin)

Rhymes with Idealist

  • realist

Sentences with idealist


1. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
The Myers-Briggs personality profile identifies idealist temperaments by the letters INFP -- introversion, intuition, feeling, perception.

2. Noun, singular or mass
The idealist believes the student wants to learn; the realist will hammer learning into the student.

Quotes about idealist


1. I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
- Studs Terkel

2. An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
- H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques

3. The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.
- Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

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