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idealized

idealized

1 6.7
Made to seem perfect or much better than it really is
  • adjective
  • /ˈaɪdiəˌlaɪzd/
translation icon : 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
96 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
1 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
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

182 3.7

Not perfect because of a mistake or problem

How Idealized

idolized
  • US
4.9
glorified
1 6.7
idealized
1 6.7
realistic
65 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.