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uniˈdeal, a.
[un-1 7.]
†1. Of sounds or words: Expressing or conveying no idea. Obs.
1751Johnson Rambler No. 184 ⁋12 However we amuse ourselves with unideal sounds. 1792W. Roberts Looker-On No. 23 (1794) I. 324 A language..rich in the unideal terms of a raving philosophy.
†2. Destitute of, lacking in, ideas. Obs.
1751Johnson Rambler No. 135 ⁋9 A short relief from the tediousness of unideal vacancy. 1801Phil. Trans. XCI. 91 Un-ideal operations conducted without principle, purpose, or regularity.
3. Having or following no ideal.
1760D. Webb Beauties of Painting iv. 68 Those servile and unideal painters. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Lit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 113 The scholars have become un-ideal. They parry earnest speech with banter and levity. 1867F. Harrison Choice of Bks. (1886) 110 To be fierce is to be un⁓ideal, to be unideal is to be sanguinary.
4. Not marked by idealism; having no ideal character or features, etc.
1838E. Fitzgerald Let. 8 June (1979) 26 The best painter of the unideal Christ is, I think, Rembrandt. 1846Ruskin Mod. Paint. II. iii. xiii. §2 Unideal works of art..represent actual existing things. 1873Spencer Stud. Sociol. ix. (1877) 222 Instead of our practice being unideal, the ideas which guide it verge on the romantic. 1877L. Morris Epic Hades iii. 276 The bare And unideal aspect of the fields Which Spring not yet had kissed. |