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Webster 1913 Edition
Ideal
I-de′al
,Adj.
[L.
idealis
: cf. F. idéal
.] 1.
Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental;
as,
. ideal
knowledge2.
Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless;
as,
. ideal
beautyByron.
There will always be a wide interval between practical and
ideal
excellence. Rambler.
3.
Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
“Planning ideal common wealth.” Southey.
4.
Teaching the doctrine of idealism;
as, the
. ideal
theory or philosophy
Syn. – Intellectual; mental; visionary; fanciful; imaginary; unreal; impracticable; utopian.
I-de′al
,Noun.
A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
The
ideal
is to be attained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species. Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is the ideal
of the beauty and proportion of the human frame. Fleming.
Beau ideal
. See
Beau ideal
.Webster 1828 Edition
Ideal
IDE'AL
,Adj.
There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.
1.
Visionary; existing in fancy or imagination only; as ideal good.2.
That considers ideas as images, phantasms, or forms in the mind; as the ideal theory or philosophy.Definition 2024
idéal
idéal
French
Adjective
idéal m (feminine singular idéale, masculine plural idéaux, feminine plural idéales)
Related terms
Anagrams
Irish
Etymology
From French idéal, from Late Latin ideālis (“existing in idea”), from Latin idea (“idea”).
Noun
idéal m (genitive singular idéil, nominative plural idéil)
Declension
Declension of idéal
First declension
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| idéal | n-idéal | hidéal | t-idéal |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Norman
Etymology
From Late Latin existing in idea, from Latin idea (“idea”).
Adjective
idéal m
Derived terms
- idéalement (“ideally”)