Crossword-Solution: IDEALIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Idealist | n. | One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations. |
| Idealist | n. | One who holds the doctrine of idealism. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with IDEALIST (5)
The merchants were looking for new markets to exploit, but the idealist rhetoric talked only in terms of benevolent paternalism.
What a different aspect a little hot supper gives to affairs! The most resolute idealist or assassin had better write his poems or plan his atrocities before the evening meal.
Rowland left them to have it out in a corner, where Roderick’s Eve stood over them in the shaded lamplight, in vague white beauty, like the guardian angel of the young idealist.
Tolstoy the realist steps without cavil into the front rank of modern writers; Tolstoy the idealist has been constantly derided and scorned by men of like birth and education with himself--his altruism denounced as impracticable, his preaching compared with his mode of life to prove him inconsistent, if not insincere.
One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; Ð opposed to idealist.
Quotes with IDEALIST (3)
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.
People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. choices. When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the ba…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 40 times in crossword archives (1965–2024).