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idealize

UK/aɪˈdɪəlaɪz//aɪˈdiəˌlaɪz/

idealize verb: to regard something as ideal.

Verb

idealize (third-person singular simple present idealizes, present participle idealizing, simple past and past participle idealized)

  1. (transitive) To regard something as ideal.
  2. (intransitive) To conceive or form an ideal.
    • People tell me that I wouldn't be so anxious for a lover if I knew the kinds of problems which such a relationship brings, to which I reply that, yes, perhaps I am idealizing somewhat, but basically I know that people aren't plastic, and that where there are human beings there are problems, and...1975 December 20, Alan Belkin, “On Relationships”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 5
  3. (transitive) To portray using idealization.

idealize meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

idealize in Bengali

আদর্শায়িত করা, সর্বোত্তমরূপে কল্পনা করা

idealize in Malayalam

romanticize, be unrealistic about, look at something through rose-tinted spectacles
ആദർശവത്കരിക്കുക, കാല്പനിക പരിവേഷം നൽകുക, കാല്പനികവത്കരിക്കുക, യാഥാർത്ഥ്യബോധം ഇല്ലാതിരിക്കുക, മാതൃകയാക്കുക, വിശിഷ്ടഗുണം ആരോപിക്കുക

Examples of idealize in a sentence

  • "Telling Lia, 'You are on track to be the Captain Ahab of the idealized al pastor taco'?"
  • Both Avengerland and Curtisland are firmly rooted in an idealized, romanticized version of contemporary Britain.
  • But despite her antimarriage stance, she idealized romantic love and saw harm in mere sensualism.

All 25 example sentences with idealize

Forms of idealize

third-person singular presentidealizes
present participleidealizing
past participleidealized
pastidealized
alternative formidealise

Past tense of idealize: idealized

Origin of idealize

From ideal + -ize. Compare French idéaliser.

Words formed from idealize

Questions about idealize

What does idealize mean?
Idealize means to regard something as ideal.
What is idealize in Bengali?
Idealize in Bengali is আদর্শায়িত করা, সর্বোত্তমরূপে কল্পনা করা. See Idealize meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is idealize?
Idealize is a verb.
How do you pronounce idealize?
Idealize is pronounced /aɪˈdɪəlaɪz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of idealize?
The past tense of idealize is idealized.

Words near idealize in the dictionary

  1. idealities
  2. ideality
  3. idealizable
  4. idealization
  5. idealizations
  6. idealize
  7. idealized
  8. idealizer
  9. idealizers
  10. idealizes
  11. idealizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: idealize (page history and authors); Idealize (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); idealize (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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