English words for 'In an idealistic manner.'
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verb
adj
- Exceedingly idealistic.
- Resembling or characteristic of the Spanish chivalric hero Don Quixote; possessed with or resulting from the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality.
- Overly optimistic and moralistic.
- not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
noun
noun
- The portrayal of something as being ideal; idealization.
- a portrayal of something as ideal
- The act of glorifying or the state of being glorified.
- Specifically, the ascension (of Christ or humans) to the glory of heaven.
- The worshiping of a deity; extolment or laudation.
- the act of glorifying (as in worship)
- a state of high honor
adj
noun
noun
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- (computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
- (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- an abstract painting
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
noun
- a portrayal of something as ideal
- The act or process of idealizing.
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad
- something that exists only as an idea
- The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
adj
noun
noun
adj
- expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
- not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
- belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
- Experiencing romantic attraction.
- Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
- Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
- (chiefly historical) Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.
- Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
- Alternative letter-case form of Romantic
adj
noun
adj
adj
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
noun
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
verb
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
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noun
- (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
- All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth.
- Synonym of sunrise.
- (attributive) Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).
- the rays of the sun
verb
adj
- Optimistic.
- (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Confirmed, straight-up.
- (chemistry) electropositive
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
- (slang) HIV positive.
- (mathematics, of a number) Greater than zero.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- (grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Fully assured in opinion.
- (law) Formally laid down.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- (mathematics, of a number, sometimes) Greater than or equal to zero.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable.
- (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
- (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- impossible to deny or disprove
- involving advantage or good
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
- greater than zero
- formally laid down or imposed
- reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
- indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
- marked by excessive confidence
- of or relating to positivism
- having a positive charge
- persuaded of; very sure
noun
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- A positive result of a test.
- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
- the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
noun
- an illusory hope
- an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain
- (baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.
- (soccer) A trick in which the player makes the ball arc over the opponent's head using both feet; rainbow kick
- (often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
- (figurative) An illusion; a mirage.
- Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
- Rainbow trout.
- (poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
- A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
- (figuratively, sometimes derogatory) A person within the LGBT community.
adj
- Multicolored, especially if in rainbow order.
- (attributive, sometimes derogatory) LGBT.
- (poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.
- (mathematics, cryptography) Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
- (attributive, chiefly US) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
verb
- (transitive) To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
- (intransitive) To take the appearance of a rainbow.
- (climbing) In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.
verb
- be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes
- intend with some possibility of fulfilment
- expect and wish
- (intransitive) To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for].
- (catenative) To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)].
- To want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not].
- (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
- (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in].
noun
- a specific instance of feeling hopeful
- one of the three Christian virtues
- the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled
- someone (or something) on which expectations are centered
- grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
- (countable) The actual thing wished for.
- (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
- A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
- (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
- (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
- (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
noun
noun
adj
adj
- (figuratively) Ideal beyond the mundane.
- (figuratively) Preternatural or supernatural.
- Not of the earth; nonterrestrial.
- (figuratively) Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious.
- (figuratively, somewhat derogatory) Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous.
- concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
- suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
noun
- the friendly hope that something will succeed
- (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets)
- a disposition to kindness and compassion
- (business, trade unionism) The willingness of a worker to perform activities not strictly within the scope of the employment contract and not just work to rule.
- (accounting) The value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities, deriving from factors such as consumer loyalty to the brand.
- A favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something.
- (countable, uncommon, usually capitalized, Canada, US) A thrift shop.
- (business) The ability of an individual or business to exert influence within a community, club, market or another type of group, without having to resort to the use of an asset (such as money or property), either directly or by the creation of a lien.
noun
- The portrayal of something as being ideal; idealization.
- a portrayal of something as ideal
- The act of glorifying or the state of being glorified.
- Specifically, the ascension (of Christ or humans) to the glory of heaven.
- The worshiping of a deity; extolment or laudation.
- the act of glorifying (as in worship)
- a state of high honor
noun
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- (computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
- (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- an abstract painting
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
noun
- a portrayal of something as ideal
- The act or process of idealizing.
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad
- something that exists only as an idea
- The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
noun
adj
- expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
- not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
- belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
- Experiencing romantic attraction.
- Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
- Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
- (chiefly historical) Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.
- Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
- Alternative letter-case form of Romantic
noun
- (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
- All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth.
- Synonym of sunrise.
- (attributive) Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).
- the rays of the sun
verb
noun
- an illusory hope
- an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain
- (baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.
- (soccer) A trick in which the player makes the ball arc over the opponent's head using both feet; rainbow kick
- (often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
- (figurative) An illusion; a mirage.
- Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
- Rainbow trout.
- (poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
- A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
- (figuratively, sometimes derogatory) A person within the LGBT community.
adj
- Multicolored, especially if in rainbow order.
- (attributive, sometimes derogatory) LGBT.
- (poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.
- (mathematics, cryptography) Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
- (attributive, chiefly US) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
verb
- (transitive) To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
- (intransitive) To take the appearance of a rainbow.
- (climbing) In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.
noun
noun
adj
noun
- the friendly hope that something will succeed
- (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets)
- a disposition to kindness and compassion
- (business, trade unionism) The willingness of a worker to perform activities not strictly within the scope of the employment contract and not just work to rule.
- (accounting) The value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities, deriving from factors such as consumer loyalty to the brand.
- A favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something.
- (countable, uncommon, usually capitalized, Canada, US) A thrift shop.
- (business) The ability of an individual or business to exert influence within a community, club, market or another type of group, without having to resort to the use of an asset (such as money or property), either directly or by the creation of a lien.
verb
- be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes
- intend with some possibility of fulfilment
- expect and wish
- (intransitive) To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for].
- (catenative) To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)].
- To want (something) to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause); or (informal) with clause; or with so or (negative) not].
- (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
- (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in].
noun
- a specific instance of feeling hopeful
- one of the three Christian virtues
- the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled
- someone (or something) on which expectations are centered
- grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
- (countable) The actual thing wished for.
- (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
- A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
- (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
- (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
- (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Exceedingly idealistic.
- Resembling or characteristic of the Spanish chivalric hero Don Quixote; possessed with or resulting from the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality.
- Overly optimistic and moralistic.
- not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
adj
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
noun
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
verb
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
adj
- Optimistic.
- (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Confirmed, straight-up.
- (chemistry) electropositive
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
- (slang) HIV positive.
- (mathematics, of a number) Greater than zero.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- (grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Fully assured in opinion.
- (law) Formally laid down.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- (mathematics, of a number, sometimes) Greater than or equal to zero.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable.
- (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
- (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- impossible to deny or disprove
- involving advantage or good
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
- greater than zero
- formally laid down or imposed
- reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
- indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
- marked by excessive confidence
- of or relating to positivism
- having a positive charge
- persuaded of; very sure
noun
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- A positive result of a test.
- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
- the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
adj
- (figuratively) Ideal beyond the mundane.
- (figuratively) Preternatural or supernatural.
- Not of the earth; nonterrestrial.
- (figuratively) Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious.
- (figuratively, somewhat derogatory) Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous.
- concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
- suggesting the operation of supernatural influences