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Ideal — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ideal adjective Perfect or the best possible for a given purpose.
  • visionary adj Showing unusual foresight or imaginative insight about the future.

Senses

Ideal is used for these senses in English:

  • ideal Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
  • ideal Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
  • ideal A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
  • ideal (algebra, ring theory) A two-sided ideal; a subset of a ring which is closed under both left and right multiplication by elements of the ring.
  • visionary Idealistic or utopian.

ideal — full definition

  1. adjective Perfect or the best possible for a given purpose.
  2. noun A standard of perfection that people aim for, even if it can't fully be reached.

visionary — full definition

  1. adj Showing unusual foresight or imaginative insight about the future.
  2. noun A person with original, forward-looking ideas.

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