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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Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025
Sky Wee is a longtime Bitcoin advocate and decentralization idealist.
—Max (chong) Li, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 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
Richard Hendricks, Pied Piper’s founder and the primary author of that algorithm, is a coder by profession but an idealist by nature.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025
Sky Wee is a longtime Bitcoin advocate and decentralization idealist.
—Max (chong) Li, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 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 29 Apr. 2025.
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