ide·al·ist
ī-ˈdē-(ə-)list 
ˈī-(ˌ)dē-
Examples of idealist in a Sentence
Noun
an idealist sees the best in everyone, regardless of how they behave
Adjective
an idealist attempt to make a go of a mom-and-pop hardware store on Main Street
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Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Poppy is an idealist who meets a situation and deals with it and acts on it and who is able to.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The new wave of realists and idealists now sit united in opposition to the current occupants of the White House.
—Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Poppy is an idealist who meets a situation and deals with it and acts on it and who is able to.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.
—Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Idealist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idealist. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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