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单词 idealizer
释义

idealize

verb

ide·​al·​ize ī-ˈdē-(ə-)ˌlīz How to pronounce idealize (audio)
idealized; idealizing

transitive verb

1
a
: to attribute ideal characteristics to
tended to idealize her teachers
b
: to give an ideal form or value to
2
: to treat idealistically
portraitists who idealize their subjects

intransitive verb

1
: to form ideals
2
: to work idealistically
idealization
ī-ˌdē-(ə-)lə-ˈzā-shən How to pronounce idealize (audio)
noun
idealizer
ī-ˈdē-(ə-)ˌlī-zər How to pronounce idealize (audio)
noun

Synonyms

  • glamorize
  • glamourize
  • glamour (up)
  • glorify
  • romanticize
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Example Sentences

She tends to idealize her job. he had a tendency to idealize his heroes and believe they could do no wrong
Recent Examples on the Web But that’s the thing: For some primitive reason probably rooted in childhood, humans have a deep need to idealize other humans; to project the possibility of transcendence or redemption onto a charismatic other. Blair Glaser, Longreads, 17 Aug. 2017 There have been some concerns as to its potential to idealize everyday activities and create a false idea of what daily routines should look like. Nelson C.j., Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2022 Nonbackpackers may idealize it as a carefree nature meander, which much of it is, but the days are also chock-full of the minute tasks of daily living that take longer and/or require more intention. Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2022 This process encourages people, especially women, to idealize certain kinds of body types and to try to achieve them. Mark Travers, Forbes, 9 June 2022 And so we both sort of fetishize and idealize really excellent musicians from abroad and kind of have our own kind of, Oh, but what about our homegrown soloists? Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022 Letting go of a lost cause has two difficult and complicated steps, oversimplified as follows: Fill up your life meaningfully without this person, and resist the temptation to idealize what isn’t there. Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2022 Krasner, with his frank, no-nonsense rhetoric and his indifference to tradition, is easy to idealize. Anna Boots, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2021 But in her willingness to confront these authoritarian experiments, Colley refuses to idealize constitutions. Washington Post, 14 May 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1786, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

Medical Definition

idealize

transitive verb

ide·​al·​ize
variants or chiefly British idealise
ī-ˈdē-(ə-)ˌlīz How to pronounce idealize (audio)
idealized or chiefly British idealised; idealizing or chiefly British idealising
: to give ideal form or value to : attribute ideal characteristics of excellence to
constantly shifting moods and a tendency to idealize or devalue other people Harvard Mental Health Letter

idealizer

noun

as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world an idealizer, she thinks that any convicted criminal is capable of being redeemed by the love of a good woman

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • dreamer
  • romantic
  • idealist
  • utopian
  • romanticist
  • visionary
  • idealogue
  • fantast
  • fantasizer
  • Don Quixote
  • ideologue
  • woolgatherer
  • theorist
  • emotionalist
  • optimist
  • sentimentalist
  • daydreamer
  • perfectionist
  • reformer
  • thinker
  • Pollyanna
  • doctrinaire
  • do-gooder
  • Micawber

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • realist
  • pragmatist
  • hardnose
  • pessimist
  • empiricist
  • defeatist
  • cynic
  • empiric
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