'Idealistic' definitions:
Definition of 'idealistic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas [syn: ideal, idealistic]
adjective
Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose" [syn: exalted, elevated, sublime, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded]
Definition of 'Idealistic'
From: GCIDE
- Idealistic \I*de`al*is"tic\, a. Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'idealistic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airy,
- animist,
- animistic,
- atomistic,
- autistic,
- Berkeleian,
- big,
- bighearted,
- chivalrous,
- cosmotheistic,
- Cyrenaic,
- dereistic,
- eclectic,
- Eleatic,
- elevated,
- empirical,
- Epicurean,
- eudaemonistic,
- exalted,
- existential,
- generous,
- great,
- great of heart,
- greathearted,
- handsome,
- hedonic,
- hedonist,
- hedonistic,
- Hegelian,
- heroic,
- high,
- high-minded,
- humanist,
- humanistic,
- idealist,
- immaterialist,
- impractical,
- in the clouds,
- instrumentalist,
- Kantian,
- knightly,
- largehearted,
- liberal,
- lofty,
- magnanimous,
- materialistic,
- mechanistic,
- Megarian,
- metaphysical,
- monistic,
- naturalistic,
- Neoplatonic,
- Neoplatonistic,
- noble,
- noble-minded,
- nominalist,
- openhanded,
- optimistic,
- otherworldly,
- panlogistical,
- panpsychist,
- panpsychistic,
- pantheistic,
- Platonic,
- Platonistic,
- poetic,
- positivist,
- positivistic,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatist,
- princely,
- quixotic,
- rationalistic,
- realist,
- realistic,
- romancing,
- romantic,
- romanticized,
- scholastic,
- sensationalistic,
- solipsistic,
- spiritualist,
- spiritualistic,
- starry-eyed,
- Stoic,
- storybook,
- sublime,
- syncretistic,
- theistic,
- transcendental,
- transcendentalist,
- transcendentalistic,
- transmundane,
- unpractical,
- unrealistic,
- utilitarian,
- visionary,
- vitalistic,
- voluntarist,
- voluntaristic,
- wish-fulfilling