[syn: exalted, elevated, sublime, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Idealistic \I*de`al*is"tic\, a.
Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
idealistic
adj 1: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the
reality of ideas [syn: ideal, idealistic]
2: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or
style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown
ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand
purpose" [syn: exalted, elevated, sublime, grand,
high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified,
idealistic, noble-minded]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "idealistic":
Berkeleian, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Hegelian, Kantian,
Megarian, Neoplatonic, Neoplatonistic, Platonic, Platonistic,
Stoic, airy, animist, animistic, atomistic, autistic, big,
bighearted, chivalrous, cosmotheistic, dereistic, eclectic,
elevated, empirical, eudaemonistic, exalted, existential, generous,
great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hedonic, hedonist,
hedonistic, heroic, high, high-minded, humanist, humanistic,
idealist, immaterialist, impractical, in the clouds,
instrumentalist, knightly, largehearted, liberal, lofty,
magnanimous, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic,
naturalistic, noble, noble-minded, nominalist, openhanded,
optimistic, otherworldly, panlogistical, panpsychist,
panpsychistic, pantheistic, poetic, positivist, positivistic,
pragmatic, pragmatist, princely, quixotic, rationalistic, realist,
realistic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, scholastic,
sensationalistic, solipsistic, spiritualist, spiritualistic,
starry-eyed, storybook, sublime, syncretistic, theistic,
transcendental, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic,
transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, utilitarian, visionary,
vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, wish-fulfilling