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| Main Entry: | utopian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, ideal |
| Synonyms: | abstract, airy, ambitious, chimerical, dream, fanciful, fantasy, grandiose, hopeful, idealist, idealistic, illusory, impossible, impractical, lofty, otherworldly, perfect, pretentious, quixotic, romantic, transcendental, unfeasible, visionary, arcadian, ideological, pie-in-the-sky |
| Antonyms: | real |
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| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, preoccupied, quixotic, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical, introvertive, lulling, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, relaxing |
| Antonyms: | horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | idealist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who holds fancies in mind, who believes in perfection |
| Synonyms: | dreamer, enthusiast, escapist, optimist, radical, romantic, seer, stargazer, utopian, visionary, Platonist, romancer, romanticist, theorizer, transcendentalist |
| Antonyms: | realist, pragmatist |
| Main Entry: | idealistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | visionary |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, chimerical, dreaming, impractical, optimistic, quixotic, radical, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian, idealized |
| Notes: | ideal means conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; idealistic means of or pertaining to idealists or their theories, pursuing perfection |
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, high-flown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, poetic, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, fictive, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetical |
| Antonyms: | dull, unimaginative, uncreative, uninventive, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | optimistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believing positively |
| Synonyms: | Utopian, assured, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheering, confident, encouraged, expectant, happy, high, hopeful, hoping, idealistic, merry, on cloud nine*, positive, promising, rosy, sanguine, sunny*, trusting, upbeat, keeping the faith, on top of world, ray of sunshine, rose-colored |
| Antonyms: | dejected, depressed, doubtful, gloomy, hopeless, pessimistic, sorrowful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | platonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressing nonphysical love |
| Synonyms: | Utopian, ideal, idealistic, intellectual, quixotic, spiritual, transcendent, visionary |
| Antonyms: | physical |
| Main Entry: | pretentious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | snobbish, conceited |
| Synonyms: | affected, arty, assuming, aureate, big*, bombastic, chichi*, conspicuous, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown*, hollow, imposing, inflated, jazzy*, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, pompous, rhetorical, showy, specious, splashy, stilted, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious, euphuistic, high-sounding, highfaluting*, la-di-da, overambitious, puffed up, put-on, swank, too-too |
| Antonyms: | humble, modest, unconceited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quixotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealistic |
| Synonyms: | chimerical, chivalrous, dreaming, dreamy, foolish, impetuous, impractical, impulsive, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian, visionary |
| Main Entry: | romantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, idealistic |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, amorous, charming, chimerical, chivalrous, colorful, corny*, daring, dreamy, enchanting, erotic, exciting, exotic, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fond, glamorous, idyllic, impractical, loving, maudlin, mushy*, mysterious, nostalgic, passionate, picturesque, poetic, quixotic, sloppy*, starry-eyed, tender, unrealistic, utopian, visionary, whimsical, wild, bathetic, fairy-tale, lovey-dovey, soppy, syrupy, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | pragmatic, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealized, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, ambitious, astral, chimerical, daydreaming, dreaming, dreamy, exalted, fanciful, fantastic, grandiose, ideal, idealist, idealistic, illusory, imaginary, impractical, introspective, lofty, musing, noble, otherworldly, pretentious, prophetic, quixotic, radical, speculative, starry-eyed*, unreal, unrealistic, unworldly, utopian, delusory, in the clouds, unworkable |
| Antonyms: | practical, real, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who dreams, is idealistic |
| Synonyms: | dreamer, enthusiast, idealist, mystic, prophet, romantic, seer, stargazer, utopian, zealot, Don Quixote, castle-builder, daydreamer, romancer, theorist |
| Antonyms: | realist |
| Main Entry: | perfect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flawless, superlative |
| Synonyms: | absolute, accomplished, aces*, adept, blameless, classical, consummate, crowning, excellent, excelling, experienced, expert, faultless, finished, foolproof, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, matchless, peerless, pure, skilled, skillful, sound, splendid, spotless, stainless, sublime, superb, supreme, ten*, unblemished, unequaled, untarnished, utopian, A-OK, beyond compare, culminating, defectless, indefectible, out-of-this-world, paradisiac, paradisiacal, unmarred, untainted |
| Antonyms: | imperfect, inferior, second-rate, unbroken, flawed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ideal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceptual; impractical |
| Synonyms: | Utopian*, abstract, chimerical, dreamlike, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious, high-flown, hypothetical, imaginary, intellectual, mental, mercurial, quixotic, theoretical, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unreal, visionary, in the clouds, ivory-tower, notional, out-of-reach, unattainable |
| Antonyms: | actual, common, material, practical, pragmatic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lofty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grand, stately |
| Synonyms: | benevolent, big, chivalrous, commanding, considerate, dignified, distinguished, elevated, exalted, generous, great, illustrious, imposing, magnanimous, majestic, noble, renowned, striking, sublime, superb, superior, utopian, visionary, arresting |
| Antonyms: | below, beneath, humble, low, modest, unobtrusive |
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| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
fancy, air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
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| Main Entry: | hopeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
hopeful, auspicious, bright, buoyant, buoyed up, cheering, confident, elated, encouraging, enthusiastic, exempt from despair, exempt from distrust, exempt from fear, exempt from suspicion, exultant, fearless, flushed, free from despair, free from distrust, free from fear, free from suspicion, full of promise, hoping, in good heart, in hopes, inspiriting, looking up, of good omen, of promise, on the highroad to, panglossian, probable, promising, propitious, reassuring, rose-colored, roseate, sanguine, secure, self-reliant, undespairing, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, utopian, within sight of land, within sight of shore
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