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idealize

[ ahy-dee-uh-lahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, i·de·al·ized, i·de·al·iz·ing.
  1. to make ideal; represent in an ideal form or character; exalt to an ideal perfection or excellence.


verb (used without object)

, i·de·al·ized, i·de·al·iz·ing.
  1. to represent something in an ideal form.

idealize

/ aɪˈdɪəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. to consider or represent (something) as ideal
  2. tr to portray as ideal; glorify
  3. intr to form an ideal or ideals
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • iˈdealˌizer, noun
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Other Words From

  • i·deal·izer noun
  • over·i·deal·ize verb overidealized overidealizing
  • uni·deal·ized adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of idealize1

First recorded in 1780–90; ideal + -ize
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Example Sentences

Despite being aware that I was prone to cognitive biases, I still idealized Taiwan, ignoring the unbearably hot summers and the concrete buildings stained from countless rainstorms.

Looking back at the fevered pace of our footprints over the past 175 years, we tend to idealize the modesty of theirs.

It’s part of the function of a very active imagination, to sort of idealize your world and to think yourself into this romance.

Like many young girls, Flores used to idealize a thinner body.

Take note of the characteristics which are peculiar to your model, and use them; do not change them nor idealize them.

Once settled on the new land, however, immigrants inevitably remember and idealize the home they have left.

When Dora is married he will idealize her, and assure himself that her marriage is the tragedy of both their lives.

Love is their chief motive,they either idealize or degrade it,and of the love we women long for most, they have no conception.

The bubble of her imagining of Lawson was pricked for the moment by it; it is hard to idealize what another despises.

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