Word Definition

Ideal

  1. Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
  2. A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
  3. Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
  4. Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
  5. Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
  6. Imaginary.

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