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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bazarov is an idealist and a brave man, and his aims are rational. ▪ But at heart he remained an idealist about social issues. ▪ By bribery - all men are corruptible - and by removing permanently any so-called idealists who stand ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Idealist \I*de"al*ist\, n. [Cf. F. id['e]aliste.] One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations. One who holds the doctrine of idealism, in any sense. In senses 4 and 5 of idealism , opposed to realist .
Usage examples of idealist.
British suspicion of the doctrinaire and the political idealist, the ordinary shopkeeper and householder are quite of opinion that urban values in land can be taxed legitimately for the benefit of the community, and that democracy would do well to decree some moderate tax on land values for the relief of the overtaxed non-landowner.
Through Novalis and Schelling, it would be the roots of the Romantic and Idealist Rebellion against the flatland aspects of the Enlightenment.
John Thomas Steadman -- a craftsman, idealist, sculptor and, like so many others before him, humble plagiarist -- and his new wife, Gloria, the daughter of a Giggleswick mayor and Plombier Provocateur, Gordon Twing, and his wife, Doreen.
His early verses attracted the attention of Stankevich, the famous head of the idealist circle, who introduced Koltsov to his Moscow friends.
The leader of the Ploughers, a harmless idealist by disposition, fluttered pathetically, listing in great detail what the government had done to bring this about, and what they should have done, and how they, the Ploughers, could accept no responsibility for it, and what they would have done, had they been given the opportunity, and if .
Die-hard materialists can have these experiences as easily as purebred idealists, and both are completely stunned into awestruck silence: the depths of the Mystery are disclosing themselves, and a muted mind must only bend in reverential awe.
He abounded in those idealist sonorosities that are the stock-in-trade of all solemn old-fashioned frauds.
In both the empiricist and the idealist currents, transcendentalism was the exclusive horizon of ideology, and in the successive centuries nearly all the major currents of philosophy would be drawn into this project.
Dino belongs, then, neither to dialectical History with its ever-evolving fashions, nor to the Eternity that idealist aestheticians imagine to transcend mere fashion.
Yet we in America, whose antiracist idealists are admired around the globe, seem to have lost these men and women as heroes.
Madame de Stael, Benjamin Constant, and the youthful idealists of the Carbonari movement.
Die-hard materialists can have these experiences as easily as purebred idealists, and both are completely stunned into awestruck silence: the depths of the Mystery are disclosing themselves, and a muted mind must only bend in reverential awe.
The idealists in poetry, music, and philosophy gave place to great men of science, to figures such as those of Ludwig and Liebig, of Gauss, Riemann, and Helmholtz.
Through Novalis and Schelling, it would be the roots of the Romantic and Idealist Rebellion against the flatland aspects of the Enlightenment.
Michael had taken the last step in that process of dehumanisation which threatens idealists of his type.