idealist
pronunciation
How to pronounce idealist in British English:
UK [aɪ'di:əlɪst]
How to pronounce idealist in American English:
US [aɪˈdiəlɪst]
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- Noun:
- someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations
Word Origin
- idealist (n.)
- "one who represents things in an ideal form," 1829, from ideal + -ist. Earlier (1796) in a philosophical sense "one who believes reality consists only in (Platonic) ideals." It seems even incredible, that any Idealist in any age could forget himself so far as to run his head against a post, merely because he found in his system, that no external world does exist, and that therefore nothing could be without to hurt him. [F.A. Nitsch, "A General and Introductory View of Professor Kant's Principles," 1796] Earlier still, "one who holds doctrines of philosophical idealism" (1701).
Example
- 1. Maybe , mayun , who is always regarded as an idealist by outsider , will somehow care .
- 2. Idealist and pessimist tribes gather around the future of machine translation .
- 3. I am an idealist , and with the arctic environment it seems that I finally found my cause .
- 4. Later , in elizabethan times , it would be suggested that the idealist anne was in dispute with the money-grubbing minister over the fate of the monasteries .
- 5. On a boat trip up the gambia he encounters a young peace corps idealist who " resembles the beginning of a novel which is destined to have an unhappy ending . "