IDEALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does idealize mean? 

• IDEALIZE (verb)
  The verb IDEALIZE has 2 senses:

1. consider or render as ideal

2. form ideals

  Familiarity information: IDEALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IDEALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they idealize    ... he / she / it idealizes   
Past simple: idealized   
Past participle: idealized   
-ing form: idealizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consider or render as ideal

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

idealise; idealize

Context example:

She idealized her husband after his death

Hypernyms (to "idealize" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "idealize"):

glamorize; glamourise; romanticise; romanticize (interpret romantically)

deify (consider as a god or godlike)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

ideal (the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain)

idealization (a portrayal of something as ideal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form ideals

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

idealise; idealize

Context example:

Man has always idealized

Hypernyms (to "idealize" is one way to...):

concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

ideal (the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain)

 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)