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idealized

idealized

17 6.7
Made to seem perfect or much better than it really is
  • adjective
  • /ˈaɪdiəˌlaɪzd/
: idealizado
  • The artist created an idealized portrait that captures the subject's beauty in a flawless way.

And so for decades after that, people thought, well, that's just a silly idealized situation.

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Examples

  • But the ones that I found most useful were first of all, the hero who stands for, you know, an idealized version of ourselves.

  • We see ourselves as unworthy of leading because we don't match some idealized image of what a leader looks like.

  • What do you think is the idealized flow time through this system?

  • This version, this idealized version, we might often draw this way.

  • But is it really you or is it an idealized version of self?

  • But these are still rather idealized figures and miss a rather critical factor, logistics.

  • Idealized American family life is about happiness.

    Academic text (2002)
  • And this is Aristotle's sort of idealized view of gender relations.

  • Yeats's poetry is idealized, purified, centrally rich, and yet also abstract.

  • He tells painters to study Raphael's tapestry designs and the idealized way that Raphael depicts the apostles.

Synonyms

unrealistic
vsidealized
89 4.0

Not having a sensible idea of what can be done in real life

aims to show something as perfect rather than only being impractical
glorified
vsidealized
26 6.7

People treat it as more important or special than it really is

presents as perfect or flawless rather than just more impressive
idolized
vsidealized
  • US
1 4.9

A person who many people admire and love very much, often too much

focuses on being shown as perfect rather than on strong praise

Antonyms

187 3.7

Not perfect because of a mistake or problem

How Idealized

idolized
  • US
1 4.9
glorified
26 6.7
idealized
17 6.7
realistic
84 4.1

Surface Forms

idealized positive
idealizer comparative
idealizedest superlative

Morphology

idealized = idealize (transparent) = ideal + ize + ed

The adjective is the regular past-participle/adjectival form of 'idealize' formed by productive suffixation '-ed', so the relation is directly derivable.

Etymology

Idealized comes from ideal, which is like idea and points to a 'perfect image' in the mind. To idealize something is to show it as that 'perfect image', so idealized means shown as more perfect than it really is.