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Definition of Idealize
1. Verb. Consider or render as ideal. "She idealized her husband after his death"
Generic synonyms: Consider, Reckon, Regard, See, View
Specialized synonyms: Glamorize, Glamourise, Romanticise, Romanticize, Deify
Derivative terms: Ideal, Idealisation, Ideal, Idealization
2. Verb. Form ideals. "Man has always idealized"
Generic synonyms: Concoct, Dream Up, Hatch, Think Of, Think Up
Derivative terms: Ideal, Ideal
Definition of Idealize
1. v. t. To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.
2. v. i. To form ideals.
Definition of Idealize
1. Verb. (transitive) To regard something as ideal. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To conceive or form an ideal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Idealize
1. to regard as perfect [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idealize
Literary usage of Idealize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Books and Reading by Roscoe Crosby Gaige, Alfred Harcourt (1908)
"idealize YOUR MASTERS GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY AND Thou, O Youth, for whom these
lines are written, fear not; idealize your friend, for it is better to love ..."
2. ...Books and Reading by Roscoe Crosby Gaige (1908)
"idealize YOUR MASTERS GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY AND Thou, O Youth, for whom these
lines are written, fear not; idealize your friend, for it is better to love ..."
3. Woman and Her Era by Eliza Woodson Burhans Farnham (1864)
"But what does the Capacity to idealize mean, in the life where it has place? ...
To idealize, is to see the True beyond the Actual; to trust fully in its ..."
4. Twelve Studies on the Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History by Charles Foster Kent, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks (1912)
"THE TENDENCY TO idealize NATIONAL HEROES. Is Shakespeare right in his statement
... Why do men as a rule idealize the dead? Does the primitive tendency to ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1897)
"... showing that peculiar characteristic of the Moorish artists which led them to
idealize in a way of their own forms actually found in Nature. ..."
6. Four English Humourists of the Nineteenth Century by William Samuel Lilly (1895)
"I say that his true vocation— it is the true vocation of all artists—is to
elevate, - to idealize, to refine. Here, indeed, is the real distinction between ..."
7. Mount Lebanon Cedar Boughs: Original Poems by North family of Mt. Lebanon, N.Y., North Family of Mt. Lebanon (N.Y. (1895)
"... power confines Within thy limits thou mayest upward rise; But if thou canst
not reach thy high ideal With ceaseless love and care, idealize the real. ..."
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