ideal
English
/aɪˈdɪəl/
adj
Definitions
- Optimal; being the best possibility.
- Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
- Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
- Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
- Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
- (mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
Etymology
Derived from French idéal derived from Latin ideālis (existing as an idea), idea (archetype, a idea, idea).
Origin
Latin
idea
Gloss
archetype, a idea, idea
Concept
Semantic Field
Cognition
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- coideal English
- hyperideal English
- idea English
- idealism English
- idealist English
- idealistic English
- idealistically English
- idealizable English
- idealization English
- idealize English
- idealizer English
- idealless English
- ideallessness English
- ideally English
- idealness English
- nonideal English
- nonideally English
- overidealistic English
- overidealize English
- pseudoideal English
- unideal English
- unidealism English
- unidealistic English
- unideally English
- idea Finnish
- idea Latin
- ideālis Latin
- Idee German
- ideal German
- idea Hungarian
- idea Italian
- ideaal Dutch, Flemish
- idealiter Dutch, Flemish
- idéal French
- idéalement French
- idéaliser French
- idéaliste French
- idée French
- idéel French
- идеалистический Russian
- идея Russian
- idea Spanish, Castilian
- ideal Spanish, Castilian
- ἰδέα Ancient Greek
- ἰδέᾱ Ancient Greek
- ideal Norwegian Bokmål
- ideal Portuguese
- idea Polish
- ideal Norwegian Nynorsk
- idéal Irish
- idea Czech
- idee Old French
- ideo Esperanto
- idea Catalan, Valencian
- ideal Catalan, Valencian
- idea Galician
- ideal Galician
- ideja Latvian
- ideal Turkish
- idéal Norman
- idée Norman
- идеален Bulgarian
- idea Slovak
- idea Asturian
- ideal Asturian
- idee Friulian
- idyjŏ Silesian