(transitive) To regard something as ideal. / (intransitive) To conceive or form an ideal. / (transitive, art) To portray using idealization.

(US) Regarded as ideal. / (US) Considered as an ideal form of something.

simple past tense and past participle of idealize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of idealize

plural of idealizer

A person who idealizes. / (algebra) For a ring R and an ideal m of R, the set of all u ∈ Frac(R) such that um ⊂ m, where Frac(R) is the fraction field of R.

A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at. / (algebra, ring theory) A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.

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.

The act or process of idealizing. / The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

plural of ideal