Syn. -- Intellectual; mental; visionary; fanciful; imaginary; unreal;
impracticable; utopian.
I*de"al (?), n. A mental conception regarded as a standard of
perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
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.
Beau ideal. See Beau ideal.
I*de"a*less (?), a. Destitute of an idea.
I*de"al*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. idéalisme.] 1. The quality or state of
being ideal.