Ideal \I*de"al\, n.
A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a
model of excellence, beauty, etc.
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The ideal is to be attained by selecting and assembling
in one whole the beauties and perfections which are
usually seen in different individuals, excluding
everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type
or model of the species. Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is
the ideal of the beauty and proportion of the human
frame. --Fleming.
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Beau ideal. See Beau ideal.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ideal \I*de"al\, a. [L. idealis: cf. F. id['e]al.]
1. Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual;
mental; as, ideal knowledge.
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2. Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a
model; faultless; as, ideal beauty. --Byron.
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There will always be a wide interval between
practical and ideal excellence. --Rambler.
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3. Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
"Planning ideal common wealth." --Southey.
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4. Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or
philosophy.
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5. (Math.) Imaginary.
Syn: Intellectual; mental; visionary; fanciful; imaginary;
unreal; impracticable; utopian.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ideal
adj 1: conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or
excellence; embodying an ideal
2: constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or
mental image or conception; "a poem or essay may be
typical of its period in idea or ideal content"
3: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality
of ideas [syn: idealistic]
n 1: the idea of something that is perfect; something that one
hopes to attain
2: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no
equal [syn: paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis,
nonesuch, nonsuch]
WordNet (r) 2.0
241 Moby Thesaurus words for "ideal":
Arcadian, Edenic, Geistesgeschichte, Hegelian idea, Kantian idea,
Platonic form, Platonic idea, Utopian, absolute, abstract,
academic, acme, ambition, apotheosis, apprehension, archetypal,
archetype, archetypical, armchair, aspiration, assumption, autism,
autistic thinking, basis, beau ideal, belief, best type,
beyond all praise, brainstorm, calling, caprice, cause, celestial,
chaste, chimerical, classic, classical, complete, complex idea,
conceit, concept, conception, conceptual, conclusion, conjectural,
conjecture, consideration, consummate, conviction, criterion,
cynosure, defectless, dereism, dereistic thinking, dream, dreamery,
ego ideal, epitome, estimation, eternal object, eternal universal,
example, excellent, exemplar, exemplary, fancied, fanciful, fancy,
fantasy, faultless, feeling, fictitious, flawless, flight of fancy,
formal cause, goal, good example, ground, guess, guiding light,
guiding star, heavenly, hero, high goal, highest category,
history of ideas, hypothesis, hypothetic, hypothetical, idealism,
idealistic, ideality, idealization, idealized, ideals, ideate,
ideational, ideatum, idee-force, ideological, idyllic, illusory,
image, imaginary, imaginative exercise, imagined, immaculate,
impeccable, impractical, impracticality, impression, inclination,
indefectible, indefective, infallible, innate idea, inspiration,
intellection, intention, irreproachable, jewel, judgment,
just right, lodestar, mainspring, man of men, masterpiece,
masterwork, matter, millennial, mirror, model, moot, morals,
motive, mythic, mythical, nonesuch, nonpareil, noosphere, notion,
notional, noumenon, opinion, paradigm, paradigmatic, paradisal,
paragon, pattern, pattern of perfection, peerless, percept,
perception, perfect, persuasion, phoenix, play of fancy,
postulatory, precedential, presumption, principle, principles,
prototypal, prototype, pure, quintessence, quintessential,
quixotism, quixotry, reaching high, reaction, reason, reflection,
regulative first principle, representative, romance, romantic,
romanticism, sake, score, sentiment, shining example, simple idea,
sinless, source, speculation, speculative, spotless, spring,
stainless, standard, standards, subsistent form, supposition,
supreme, surmise, suspicion, taintless, the Absolute,
the Absolute Idea, the Self-determined, the realized ideal,
theoretical, theory, thought, transcendent, transcendent idea,
transcendent nonempirical concept, transcendent universal,
transcendental, typical, ulterior motive, unadulterated,
unblemished, uncontaminated, unfaultable, universal,
universal concept, universal essence, unmixed, unpracticalness,
unreal, unrealism, unreality, unspotted, untainted, upward looking,
utopian, utopianism, vagary, very, very model, view, visionariness,
visionary, vocation, whim, whimsy, wish fulfillment,
wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
IDEAL
1. Ideal DEductive Applicative Language. A language by Pier
Bosco and Elio Giovannetti combining Miranda and Prolog.
Function definitions can have a guard condition (introduced
by ":-") which is a conjunction of equalities between
arbitrary terms, including functions. These guards are solved
by normal Prolog resolution and unification. It was
originally compiled into C-Prolog but was eventually to be
compiled to K-leaf.
2. A numerical constraint language written by Van Wyk of
Stanford in 1980 for typesetting graphics in documents.
It was inspired partly by Metafont and is distributed as
part of Troff.
["A High-Level Language for Specifying Pictures", C.J. Van
Wyk, ACM Trans Graphics 1(2):163-182 (Apr 1982)].
(1994-12-15)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
ideal
In domain theory, a non-empty, downward closed
subset which is also closed under binary least upper bounds.
I.e. anything less than an element is also an element and the
least upper bound of any two elements is also an element.
(1997-09-26)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
Ideal, GA (city, FIPS 40812)
Location: 32.37277 N, 84.18891 W
Population (1990): 554 (176 housing units)
Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 31041
Ideal, SD
Zip code(s): 57541
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Ideal, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 518
Housing Units (2000): 217
Land area (2000): 1.165520 sq. miles (3.018682 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.165520 sq. miles (3.018682 sq. km)
FIPS code: 40812
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 32.372918 N, 84.188822 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 31041
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ideal, GA
Ideal
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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