Definition of ideal

"ideal" in the noun sense

1. ideal

the idea of something that is perfect something that one hopes to attain

2. ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch

model of excellence or perfection of a kind one having no equal

"ideal" in the adjective sense

1. ideal

conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence embodying an ideal

2. ideal

constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception

"a poem or essay may be typical of its period in idea or ideal content"

3. ideal, idealistic

of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas

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Quotations for ideal

The actual well seen is the ideal. [ Carlyle ]

The great artist is the slave of his ideal. [ Bovee ]

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal. [ Emerson ]

Ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never located. [ Madame Sevigne ]

The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art. [ Octave Feuillet ]

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Ideal excellence, or one's conception of perfection in anything. [ French ]

Oesser taught me that the ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility. [ Goethe ]

What we need most is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. [ F. H. Hedge ]

Without the ideal, the inexhaustible source of all progress, - what would man be? [ Mme. de Girardin ]

One can journey with delight in the ideal, but one reposes well only in the reality. [ Vieillard ]

Two ways are open for thee out of life; one conducts to the ideal, the other to death. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. [ Mrs. Oliphant ]

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; the reality always remains far apart from the ideal. [ Joseph Roux ]

Without the ideal, this inexhaustible source of all progress, what would man be? and what would society be? [ E. de Girardin ]

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Many benefit by the caresses they have not inspired; many a vulgar reality serves as a pedestal to an ideal idol. [ T. Gautier ]

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless forever. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. [ Emerson ]

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. [ Henry George ]

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity or classical works with gross and trivial recollections. [ Wordsworth ]

God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. [ Robert Collyer ]

The power of painter or poet to describe rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal, but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith. [ Ruskin ]

Commonsense is science exactly so far as it fulfils the ideal of commonsense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. [ Huxley ]

The absent one is an ideal person; those who are present seem to one another to be quite commonplace. It is a silly thing that the ideal is, as it were, ousted by the real; that may be the reason why to the moderns their ideal only manifests itself in longing. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirit always sweet and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability, - that is an ideal as noble as it is difficult. [ Edward Howard Griggs ]

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

ideal in Scrabble®

The word ideal is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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ideal in Words With Friends™

The word ideal is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Word Growth involving ideal

Shorter words in ideal

deal

id ide idea

Longer words containing ideal

idealess

idealisation idealisations

idealise idealised overidealised

idealise idealiser idealisers

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idealise overidealise overidealised

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idealising overidealising

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idealism overidealism

idealist idealistic idealistically nonidealistically

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idealities

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ideally

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