verb
Meaning 1
To regard something as ideal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
idealize
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /aɪˈdɪəlaɪz/
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Canada, General-American: /aɪˈdiəˌlaɪz/
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verb
Meaning 2
To conceive or form an ideal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To portray using idealization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: art, arts
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
form ideals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Man has always idealized
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: idealise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct
verb
Meaning 5
consider or render as ideal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She idealized her husband after his death
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: idealise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: see, consider, reckon, view, regard
Narrower terms: romanticize, romanticise, glamorize, glamourise, deify
History
Etymology
From ideal + -ize. Compare French idéaliser.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: idealizar — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Belarusian: ідэалізава́ць (idealizavácʹ) — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Bulgarian: идеализирам (idealiziram) — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Catalan: idealitzar — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Danish: idealisere — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Dutch: idealiseren — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Esperanto: idealigi — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Finnish: ihannoida — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- French: idéaliser — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Galician: idealizar — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- German: idealisieren — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Hungarian: idealizál — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Hungarian: eszményít — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Italian: idealizzare — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Kazakh: дәріптеу (därıpteu) — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Latin: ideālizō — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Latvian: idealizēt — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Piedmontese: idealisé — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Polish: idealizować — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Polish: wyidealizować — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Portuguese: idealizar — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Romanian: idealiza — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Russian: идеализи́ровать (idealizírovatʹ) — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Serbo-Croatian: идеализи́рати — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Serbo-Croatian: idealizírati — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Spanish: idealizar — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Swedish: idealisera — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Ukrainian: ідеалізува́ти (idealizuváty) — transitive: to regard something as ideal
- Catalan: idealitzar — intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal
- Czech: idealizovat — intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal
- French: idéaliser — intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal
- Galician: idealizar — intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal
- German: idealisieren — intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal
- Italian: idealizzare — intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal
- Kazakh: дәріптеу (därıpteu) — intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal
- Latvian: idealizēt — intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal
- Portuguese: idealizar — intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal
- Russian: идеализи́ровать (idealizírovatʹ) — intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal
- Spanish: idealizar — intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal