IDEAL
\a͡ɪdˈi͡əl], \aɪdˈiəl], \aɪ_d_ˈiə_l]\
Definitions of IDEAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
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the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain
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conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal
By Princeton University
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model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
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the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain
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conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal
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represented in the abstract rather than as they really are
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
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Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
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Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
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Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
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Imaginary.
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A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
By Oddity Software
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Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
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Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
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Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
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Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
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Imaginary.
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A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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Existing in imagination only; visionary; impractical; conforming to a standard of perfection; perfect.
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A mental conception or an individual regarded as the standard of perfection.
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Ideally.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Ideally.
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Existing in idea: mental: existing in imagination only: the highest and best conceivable, the perfect, as opp. to the real, the imperfect.
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The highest conception of anything.
By Daniel Lyons
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Ideally.
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Pertaining to ideas; exiting only in idea; reaching the highest conception.
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A model; type; highest conceivable state.
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Something imaginary.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Existing in idea; mental; imaginative.
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Highest conception.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Ideal diseases. Diseases of the imagination.
By Robley Dunglison
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