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idealist

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of IDEALIST

one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world <an idealist sees the best in everyone, regardless of how they behave>

Synonyms Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealizer, ideologue (also idealogue), romantic, romanticist, utopian, visionary

Related Words emotionalist, sentimentalist; daydreamer, fantasizer, woolgatherer; Micawber, optimist, Pollyanna; do-gooder, reformer; perfectionist; doctrinaire, theorist, thinker

Near Antonyms cynic, defeatist, pessimist; empiric, empiricist

Antonyms hardnose, pragmatist, realist

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