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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Idealistic \I*de'al*is"tic\, adjective Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
idealistic
adjective
1: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas [syn: {ideal}]
2: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept" [syn: {exalted}, {high-flown}, {high-minded}, {lofty}, {rarefied}, {rarified}, {noble-minded}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "idealistic": Berkeleian, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Hegelian, Kantian, Megarian, Neoplatonic, Neoplatonistic, Platonic, Platonistic, Stoic, airy, animist, animistic, atomistic, autistic, big, bighearted, chivalrous, cosmotheistic, dereistic, eclectic, elevated, empirical, eudaemonistic, exalted, existential, generous, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, heroic, high, high-minded, humanist, humanistic, idealist, immaterialist, impractical, in the clouds, instrumentalist, knightly, largehearted, liberal, lofty, magnanimous, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, noble, noble-minded, nominalist, openhanded, optimistic, otherworldly, panlogistical, panpsychist, panpsychistic, pantheistic, poetic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, princely, quixotic, rationalistic, realist, realistic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, scholastic, sensationalistic, solipsistic, spiritualist, spiritualistic, starry-eyed, storybook, sublime, syncretistic, theistic, transcendental, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, utilitarian, visionary, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, wish-fulfilling
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