| Main Entry: | idealist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who holds fancies in mind, who believes in perfection |
Synonyms: |
Platonist, dreamer, enthusiast, escapist, optimist, radical, romancer, romantic, romanticist, seer, stargazer, theorizer, transcendentalist, utopian, visionary |
Antonyms: |
pragmatist, realist |
| Main Entry: | dreamer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | visionary |
Synonyms: |
Walter Mitty, daydreamer, escapist, fantasizer, idealist, romantic, star-gazer, theorizer |
| Main Entry: | optimist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | positive thinker |
Synonyms: |
Pollyanna, dreamer, hoper, idealist |
| Main Entry: | perfectionist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stickler |
Synonyms: |
formalist, fussbudget, fusspot, idealist, nit-picker, purist, quibbler |
| Main Entry: | Pollyanna |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | optimist |
Synonyms: |
dreamer, hoper, idealist, positive thinker |
| Main Entry: | utopian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, ideal |
Synonyms: |
abstract, airy, ambitious, arcadian, chimerical, dream, fanciful, fantasy, grandiose, hopeful, idealist, idealistic, ideological, illusory, impossible, impractical, lofty, otherworldly, perfect, pie-in-the-sky, pretentious, quixotic, romantic, transcendental, unfeasible, visionary |
Antonyms: |
real |
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealized, romantic |
Synonyms: |
abstracted, ambitious, astral, chimerical, daydreaming, delusory, dreaming, dreamy, exalted, fanciful, fantastic, grandiose, ideal, idealist, idealistic, illusory, imaginary, impractical, in the clouds, introspective, lofty, musing, noble, otherworldly, pretentious, prophetic, quixotic, radical, speculative, starry-eyed, unreal, unrealistic, unworkable, unworldly, utopian |
Antonyms: |
practical, real, realistic, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who dreams, is idealistic |
Synonyms: |
Don Quixote, castle-builder, daydreamer, dreamer, enthusiast, idealist, mystic, prophet, romancer, romantic, seer, stargazer, theorist, utopian, zealot |
Antonyms: |
realist |
| Main Entry: | escapist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dreamer |
Synonyms: |
evader, idealist, romanticist |