Ideal
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- Optimal; being the best possibility.
- Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
- Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 256:
- The idea of ghosts is ridiculous in the extreme; and if you continue to be swayed by ideal terrors —
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 256:
Ideal may refer to:
- Ideal (ethics), values that one actively pursues as goals
- Platonic ideal, a philosophical idea of trueness of form, associated with Plato
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