| ideal | the idea of something that is perfect |
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| ideal | model of excellence or perfection of a kind |
| ideal | constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception |
| ideal | conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence |
| ideal | represented in the abstract rather than as they really are |
| ideal | of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas |
| ideal | a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces |
| ideal | any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent |
| ideal | a portrayal of something as ideal |
| ideal | something that exists only as an idea |
| ideal | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad |
| ideal | form ideals |