Ideal Synonyms and Antonyms

ī-dēəl, ī-dēl
Typical
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. prototypical
  2. model
  3. archetypical
A fervent hope, wish, or goal
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. aspiration
  2. dream
Characterizing the unattainable
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. impractical
  2. abstract
  3. visionary
  4. chimerical
  5. utopian
  6. idealistic
  7. quixotic
  8. theoretical
  9. romantic
  10. imaginary
  11. fanciful
  12. unreal
  13. hypothetic
  14. panglossian
  15. aerial
  16. high-flown
  17. hypothetical
  18. consummate
  19. impracticable
  20. doctrinaire
  21. extravagant
  22. theoretic
  23. faultless
  24. in the clouds
  25. messianic
  26. mercurial
  27. paradisaical
  28. out-of-reach
  29. dreamlike
  30. paradisical
  31. fictitious
  32. perfect
  33. transcendent
  34. unearthly
  35. platonic
  36. poetic
  37. transcendental
  38. sentimental
Antonyms:
  1. practical
  2. real
  3. attainable
  4. practicable
  5. actual
  6. common
  7. down-to-earth
  8. material
  9. pragmatic

Words Related to Ideal

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Ideal Sentence Examples

  • To this ideal he remained faithful.

  • All men may perhaps be aiming everywhere at the same moral ideal,' but it is absurd to.

  • That may be your idea of an ideal relationship, but I had to get away from him if I was going to have a life of my own.

  • I guess he wasn't the ideal patient so the doctors weren't inclined to put up much of a fuss.

  • To Bolkonski so many people appeared contemptible and insignificant creatures, and he so longed to find in someone the living ideal of that perfection toward which he strove, that he readily believed that in Speranski he had found this ideal of a perfectly rational and virtuous man.

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