ideal
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7.4
- adjective
- /aɪˈdiːəl/
- Specialized
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ideal
- Philosophers often debate the concept of an ideal society where justice and equality prevail.
- an ideal society
- an ideal world
- ideal form
Not just formal, not just ideal, but actual.
- Not just formal, not just ideal, but actual.
- One regime is the ideal gas, the gas regime.
- Doesn't really like to kind of paint ideal social orders.
- You've got to decide what is your ideal week look like.
Examples
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We have to take down this love-and-marriage ideal from its pedestal.
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And I want you to take it not on your ideal self, your real self.
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This would be the ideal time for you to discover your secret powers!
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The weather conditions are far from ideal and latest reports indicate there is no relief in sight.
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It's the ideal illustration of this myth.
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In my ideal world, there wouldn't have to be a funeral, would there?
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This is not the ideal time to transplant bulbs.
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Back in Nebraska, Mallory had built up for her an ideal Honduras, a magical place of innocence.
Fiction book (1996) -
Are you an absolutist or a relativist, ideal or practical in your worldly posture?
Fiction book (1997) -
Utopian visions portray the general characteristics of an ideal society and often emerge from distaste for the status quo.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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5.5
Ideas or images that exist only in the mind and are not real
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.4
An imaginary gas made of tiny particles that take up no space and do not affect each other
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9.6
An inside standard you try to reach for your behavior and achievements that you often learn from parents
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A model of a perfect machine that turns heat into work to show the highest possible efficiency
- Jargon
A belief in maximum personal freedom and very little government control
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A three-dimensional shape with identical regular flat faces, like a cube
How Abstract
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ideal comes from the word idea, which in Greek meant a 'form' or the picture you see in your mind. So an ideal in this sense is something that exists as a mental concept rather than as a real thing.