IDEALIZE meaning: Attribute perfection unrealistically to something

We found 28 dictionaries that define the word Idealize:

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idealize: Merriam-Webster
idealize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
idealize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
idealize: Collins English Dictionary
idealize: Vocabulary.com
idealize: Wordnik
idealize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
idealize: Wiktionary
idealize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
idealize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
idealize: Infoplease Dictionary
idealize: Dictionary.com
idealize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Idealize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
idealize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
idealize: Rhymezone
idealize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
idealize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
idealize: FreeDictionary.org
idealize: Mnemonic Dictionary
idealize: TheFreeDictionary.com
idealize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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idealize: Legal dictionary

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idealize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

idealize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
idealize: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (idealize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To regard something as ideal.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To conceive or form an ideal.
▸ verb:  (transitive, art) To portray using idealization.

Opposite:

deglamorize, realistic, pragmatic, unromantic

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