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idealist noun [ ʌɪˈdɪəlɪst ]

• a person who is guided more by ideals than by practical considerations.
• "they were idealists and visionaries, in love with the work they had undertaken"
Similar: utopian, visionary, wishful thinker, pipe-dreamer, fantasist, fantasizer, romantic, romanticist, romancer, castle-builder, Walter Mitty, Don Quixote, dreamer, daydreamer, impractical person, unrealistic person, fantast, reverist,
Opposite: realist, cynic, defeatist,
• a person who believes in the theory of idealism.
• "Hegel described himself as an absolute idealist"


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