Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To regard something as ideal.

    idealisieren

    идеализи́роватьidealizírovatʹ

    ідеалізува́тиidealizuváty

    consider or render as ideal

  2. (intransitive)To conceive or form an ideal.

    idealisieren

    идеализи́роватьidealizírovatʹ

    form ideals

  3. (transitive)To portray using idealization.

Examples

16 sentences
  1. She has an idealized view of love.

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  2. I want to remove from my mind everything that idealizes civilization.

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  3. A sociopath would idealize you one minute and demonize you the next minute.

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  4. Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

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  5. Correct English should be how people actually speak, not some academic's idealized version of the language.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
transitive: to regard something as ideal:
Русский
By meaning 1
transitive: to regard something as ideal:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
transitive: to regard something as ideal:

Origin

From ideal + -ize. Compare French idéaliser.

From ideal + -ize. Compare French idéaliser.

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Forms

idealizes, idealizing, idealized, idealized
Base formidealize · to idealize
3rd person singularidealizes
Present participleidealizing
Past simpleidealized
Past participleidealized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyidealize
he, she, itidealizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsidealized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave idealized
he, she, ithas idealized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill idealize

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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