idealist
idealist noun: one who adheres to idealism.
Noun
idealist (plural idealists)
- One who adheres to idealism.
- Someone whose conduct stems from idealism rather than from practicality.
- An unrealistic or impractical visionary.
idealist meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
idealist in Tamil
- இலக்கியலாளர், கருத்தியல் கோட்பாட்டாளர், இலட்சியவாதி
idealist in Urdu
- خیال پرست
idealist in Bengali
- আদর্শবাদী, ভাববাদী
idealist in Malayalam
- visionary, utopian, fantasist romantic
- ആദർശവാദി, ആദർശവാദിനി, ആദർശശാലി, അപ്രായോഗികതത്ത്വോപദേശകൻ, ആദർശകപരായണൻ, ആദർശധീരൻ
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- idealist in Kannada
- ಆದರ್ಶವಾದಿ, ಆದರ್ಶ ನಿರೂಪಕ, ಕನಸಿಗ, ವ್ಯವಹಾರ ಜ್ಞಾನವಿಲ್ಲದವನು
Examples of idealist in a sentence
- The guerrillas were a ragtag band of local thugs, former soldiers, displaced farmers, and political idealists.
- Fellow Orthogonians considered him an idealist who emphasized Orthogonian rituals to develop moral behavior among the members.
- Marshall’s vision was always tailor-made for a somewhat rare species in New York, the supersociable idealist.
Forms of idealist
| plural | idealists |
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Origin of idealist
From French idéaliste, from Late Latin idealis (“ideal”), from Latin idea (“idea”), equivalent to ideal + -ist.
Words formed from idealist
Questions about idealist
- What does idealist mean?
- Idealist means one who adheres to idealism.
- What is idealist in Tamil?
- Idealist in Tamil is இலக்கியலாளர், கருத்தியல் கோட்பாட்டாளர், இலட்சியவாதி. See Idealist meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is idealist?
- Idealist is a noun.
- What is the plural of idealist?
- The plural of idealist is idealists.
Words near idealist in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: idealist (page history and authors); idealist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); idealist (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Idealist (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); idealist (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); idealist (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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