IDEALIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they idealize ... he / she / it idealizes

Past simple: idealized

Past participle: idealized

-ing form: idealizing

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form ideals

Example:

Man has always idealized

Synonyms:

idealise; idealize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "idealize" is one way to...):

concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

ideal (the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consider or render as ideal

Example:

She idealized her husband after his death

Synonyms:

idealise; idealize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "idealize" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "idealize"):

glamorize; glamourise; romanticise; romanticize (interpret romantically)

deify (consider as a god or godlike)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody