Plural of idealist
regular plural
The plural of idealist is idealists.
Forms of idealist
| Singular | idealist |
|---|---|
| Plural | idealists |
| Countable | countable |
Idealists in a sentence
- The guerrillas were a ragtag band of local thugs, former soldiers, displaced farmers, and political idealists.From the entry ragtag
- Have we been betrayed, or misled, by our classic wordmasters who were such semantic idealists, such well-meaning rebels?2000, Melvin J[onah] Lasky, Profanity, Obscenity & the Media (The Language of Journalism; 2), New Brunswick, N.J.; London: Transaction…. From the entry wordmaster
- Unlike the ascetic idealists Emerson and Thoreau, Melville abandoned Pauline-Christian carnophobia and accepted man's body as part of his essential being.1987 July 1, Tetsumaro Hayashi, Herman Melville: research opportunities and dissertation abstracts, McFarland & Co Inc, →ISBN. From the entry carnophobia
- Prison abolitionists are dismissed as utopians and idealists whose ideas are at best unrealistic and impracticable, and, at worst, mystifying and foolish.2003, Angela Y. Davis, chapter 1, in Are Prisons Obsolete?, archived from the original on 19 May 2023, pages 9-10. From the entry impracticable
Meaning of idealist
- noun One who adheres to idealism.
- noun Someone whose conduct stems from idealism rather than from practicality.
- noun An unrealistic or impractical visionary.
Questions about the plural of idealist
- What is the plural of idealist?
- The plural of idealist is idealists.
- Is idealist countable?
- Idealist is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: idealist (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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