IDEALIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does idealized mean? 

• IDEALIZED (adjective)
  The adjective IDEALIZED has 1 sense:

1. exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence

  Familiarity information: IDEALIZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IDEALIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence

Synonyms:

idealised; idealized

Similar:

perfect (being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish)

 Context examples 

They simulated the atmospheres of idealized, oxygen-poor, terrestrial exoplanets of two types: hydrogen-rich and carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A representation of something, often idealized or modified to make it conceptually easier to understand.

(Model, NCI Thesaurus)

It was an idealized Ruth he had loved, an ethereal creature of his own creating, the bright and luminous spirit of his love-poems.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The result was a full page in a Sunday supplement, filled with photographs and idealized drawings of Marian, with many intimate details of Martin Eden and his family, and with the full text of The Palmist in large type, and republished by special permission of Mackintosh's Magazine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)