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Ideal

Definitions: Ideal

Ideal

Adjective

1. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal.

2. Represented in the abstract rather than as they really are.

3. Constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception; "a poem or essay may be typical of its period in idea or ideal content".

4. Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas.

Noun

1. The idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain.

2. Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ideal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Ideal

DomainDefinitions

Computing

IDEAL 1. Ideal DEductive Applicative Language. A language by Pier Bosco and Elio Giovannetti combining Miranda and Prolog. Function definitions can have a guard condition (introduced by ":-") which is a conjunction of equalities between arbitrary terms, including functions. These guards are solved by normal Prolog resolution and unification. It was originally compiled into C-Prolog but was eventually to be compiled to K-leaf. 2. A numerical constraint language written by Van Wyk of Stanford in 1980 for typesetting graphics in documents. It was inspired partly by Metafont and is distributed as part of Troff. ["A High-Level Language for Specifying Pictures", C.J. Van Wyk, ACM Trans Graphics 1(2):163-182 (Apr 1982)]. (1994-12-15) ideal In domain theory, a non-empty, downward closed subset which is also closed under binary least upper bounds. I.e. anything less than an element is also an element and the least upper bound of any two elements is also an element. (1997-09-26). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Dream Interpretation

For a young woman to dream of meeting her ideal, foretells a season of uninterrupted pleasure and contentment. For a bachelor to dream of meeting his ideal, denotes he will soon experience a favorable change in his affairs. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Ideal, Georgia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Ideal is a city located in Macon County, Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 518.

Geography


Ideal is located at 32°22'23" North, 84°11'20" West (32.372918, -84.188822)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.0 km² (1.2 mi²). 3.0 km² (1.2 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 518 people, 174 households, and 123 families residing in the city. The population density is 170.9/km² (444.4/mi²). There are 217 housing units at an average density of 71.6/km² (186.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 32.43% White, 66.22% African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.16% from two or more races. 0.39% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 174 households out of which 36.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.2% are married couples living together, 28.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.3% are non-families. 29.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.44 and the average family size is 2.95. In the city the population is spread out with 25.1% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 20.8% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 24.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 43 years. For every 100 females there are 63.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 61.0 males. The median income for a household in the city is $16,538, and the median income for a family is $21,250. Males have a median income of $28,125 versus $15,714 for females. The per capita income for the city is $9,712. 31.1% of the population and 31.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 37.5% are under the age of 18 and 43.0% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ideal, Georgia."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Ideal

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

IDEAL

EnglishInteractive Dialogues for Explanation And LearningComputing, European Union

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Ideal

Synonyms: idealistic (adj), apotheosis (n), nonesuch (n), nonpareil (n), nonsuch (n), paragon (n), saint (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ideal

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Beauty

Noun: beauty, the beautiful, gr/to kalon/gr, le beau ideal.

Completeness

Entirety; perfection; solidity, solidarity; unity; all; ne plus ultra, ideal, limit.

Error

Illusive, illusory; delusive; mock, ideal; (imaginary); spurious; deceitful; perverted.

Imagination

Ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus; unsubsantial; illusory; (fallacious).

Inexistence

Fabulous, ideal; (imaginary), supposititious.

Perfection

Pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of perfection; ne plus ultra; summit.

Prototype

Noun: prototype, original, model, pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type; archetype, antitype; protoplast, module, exemplar, example, ensample, paradigm; lay-figure.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ideal

English words defined with "ideal": beau ideal, black-body radiation, Boltzmann's constant, Boyle's lawCarnot's ideal cycle, Charles' law, chilly, chivalrous, criteriondedicated, Designmentego idealfree fallgallant, Gay-Lussac's law, glorification, Golden AgeHaloed, hotbedideal gas, ideal solid, idealisation, idealise, idealised, idealism, ideality, idealization, idealize, idealized, ideally, idol, Ivan IvanovitchJohn Bullknightlylaw of volumes, Louis IXMariotte's law, more, mundanenaturalisticoutwardnessparagon, perfection, Pitch circle, Pitch line, Planck's radiation law, Portrait bust, Portrait statuerealisticSaint Louis, Shingon, Sion, Sir Thomas More, standardterrene, Theocrasy, Thomas More, transculturalUnideal, Utopia, Utopian, UtopicalvalueZion. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ideal": 3104157541absolute manometer, actual gas, actual radius of the earth, Afriet, antenna temperature, ARCHITECT, MARINE, atomically-clean semiconductor surfaceblack body, blackbody, Bridgechain surveying, Coins, constitutive equationdischarge correction factor, diskless workstationeffective area, effective Earth's radius, effective radius of the Earth, energy conversion efficiencyField line preservation, foveae palatinae, free atmosphere, free spaceGaussian filter, general test methodHEQS, homogeneous atmosphere, hydrodynamic analogyideal exhaust velocity, ideal fluid, ideal gas laws, ideal merge, ideal nozzle, ideal reproducing head, ideal rocket, ideal section, ideal transducer, ideal velocity, idealised diode, idealised transistor, Idealists, idealized diode, idealized transistor, Incorruptiple, Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph, ion activityJoule cycle, Joule's LawKirchhoff lawLambert law, lens aberration, Loschmidt number, lost head, lumped circuitmach stem, Magnifique ... Guerreneutral point, nozzle efficiency, nozzle-divergence loss factor, nstObesity, Morbid, Oceanaperfect fluid, playback characteristics, Poetical Justice, programmable unijunction transistorray tracing, RCA 1802, real gas, real radius of the earth, reduced eye, reproducing characteristic, reproducing characteristics, reproducing loss, Resistive Instability, rheological equation, Roadselective absorption, shaft lightingtheoretical rocket, thermometric fan test, true earth radiusunsolvable problemwell losses, Wien distribution law. (references)
Etymologies containing "ideal": Utopical. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Ideal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (ideal, it, mental, nonpareil), Danish (ideal), German (ideal, ideally, perfect), Papiamen (ideal), Portuguese (abstract, doss, dream, fancy, idealism, notional, pattern), Romanian (excellent, ideal, ideally, idol, lodestar), Serbo-Croatian (ideal), Spanish (dream, ideal, lead, nonesuch), Swedish (exemplar, ideal, ideals), Turkish (aim, apotheosis, dream, dreamboat, goal, ideal, mission, optimal, optimum, pattern, soaring, utopian).

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Modern Usage: Ideal

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ideal for your purposes. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

A private study is an ideal place for observing facets of a man's character. (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer)

It just dawned on me! This scroll of Broken Sword's isn't about sword technique but about swordsmanship's ultimate ideal. Swordsmanship's first achievement is the unity of man and sword. (Ying xiong; writing credit: Feng Li; Bin Wang)

That's no ideal to me. That is a living, working reality. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

My ideal weight if I were 11 feet tall. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

Lyrics

He's my ideal as a matter of fact ("My Guy"; performing artist: Mary Wells)

Clever

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Adult Education Topic: How to be the ideal shopping companion. Relaxation, exercises, meditation and breathing techniques. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

An Ideal Husband (1969)

Un Marido ideal (1947)

Hermoso ideal (1947)

An Ideal Husband (1947)

Caro ideal! Torna (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Ideal

DomainTitle

References

  • Ideal Group SA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Ideal Shopping Direct P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • An Ideal Husband (Dover Thrift Editions) [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

  • Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals (reference)

  • Perfect Weight: The Complete Mind/Body Program for Achieving and Maintaining Your Ideal Weight (Perfect Health Library) (reference)

  • Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Oscar Wilde Collection (The Importance of Being Earnest / The Picture of Dorian Gray / An Ideal Husband / Lady Windermere's Fan) (reference)

  • Oscar Wilde Collection (The Importance of Being Earnest / The Picture of Dorian Gray / An Ideal Husband / Lady Windermere's Fan) (reference)

  • An Ideal Husband (reference)

  • 3AABUU ACAMAC PRIMARIUS Martial Arts NOT DANGER sports ideal kids OFFICIAL BLUE BELT RANK (reference)

  • Finding Your Ideal Retirement Place (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Ideal

Illustrations:
Ideal

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Photo Album: Ideal

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

U.S. American National Red Cross Convalescent Hospital No.1, St. Julien-Beycheville, France. : An ideal place to get well.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Ideal

AuthorQuotation

Anne Sophie Swetchine

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Cogito

The real and concrete truth, not the methodical and ideal, is: homo sum, ergo cogito.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

George Sand

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Lord Byron

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

Nietzsche

I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the apes of their ideal.

Pir Vilayat Khan

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

Thomas Carlyle

The actual well seen is ideal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Ideal

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

In my contemplation, be stood as the ideal of his class.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Style is the force of the ideal, rhythm is its movement.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ideal

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Subsets of stage I must be fully defined and ideal treatment determined. (references)

Identification of all children with hearing impairment at birth is ideal. (references)

Nevertheless, recent studies show that 2 weeks of triple therapy is ideal. (references)

Business

They are ideal for telemetry purposes. (references)

Exhibiting at a trade show in France is an ideal tool for penetrating the French market. (references)

The international trade fairs held in Chile are ideal for foreign companies to market their products. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

CCTV is ideal for this purpose, being accepted as evidence in court. (references)

Portugal

One distributor that is appointed on an exclusive basis is the ideal. (references)

India

A small distributor could be ideal where a flexible strategy is called for. (references)

Human Rights

Yugoslavia

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, which visited prisons during the year, reported that, while conditions were not ideal, there has been an overall improvement since the prison riots that occurred in November 2000. The Government has improved living conditions and provides adequate food, medical care, and heating. (references)

Political Economy

SWEDEN

Enforcement of the law, however, has been less than ideal, although a contradiction between Sweden's constitution and its international obligations to protect unpublished, copyrighted material has been resolved in a satisfactory manner. (references)

Trade

Luxembourg

With an express bill of lading, goods are automatically transferred to the designated consignee without presentation of the original B/L. This is ideal for internal company shipments of goods sold on open account. (references)

Travel

Ireland

Wool jackets and hats are ideal. (references)

Austria

For people wanting unlimited travel the ideal way to travel is the Eurail ticket giving an option to travel in and between 27 countries in Europe and including two extra bonuses at the Hilton International (reduction on room rates) and Hertz rent-a-car (reduction on car rental). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Ideal

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Bob Costas

I think for a lot of people it would. The ideal is if the commissioner is jointly selected and jointly paid by the players and the owners. I think the players would be less interested in that than you might think.

Dennis Miller

Because the truth is, the secret to building the ideal American family has nothing to do with gender or genetics or color.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Ideal

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Benjamin Harrison

1889-1893The ideal, or even my own ideal, I shall probably not attain.

George Bush

1989-1993It's time to give people more choice in government by reviving the ideal of the citizen politician who comes not to stay, but to serve.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Throughout our history, we haven't always honored that ideal and we've never fully lived up to it.

George W. Bush

2001-2005This ideal of America is the hope of all mankind.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Ideal

"Ideal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 73.79% of the time. "Ideal" is used about 4,006 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)73.79%2,9563,160
Noun (singular)26.11%1,0467,128
Unclassified Items0.05%2245,945
Noun (proper)0.05%2245,945
                    Total100.00%4,006N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Ideal

CountryNameCountryName
Greece

Ideal Group SA

United Kingdom

Ideal Shopping Direct P.L.C.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Ideal


1. Ideal, GA (city, FIPS 40812)
Location: 32.37277 N, 84.18891 W
Population (1990): 554 (176 housing units)
Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 31041
Country: USA


2. Ideal, SD
Zip Code(s): 57541
Country: USA

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Expressions: Ideal

Expressions using "ideal": beau ideal Carnot's ideal cycle ego ideal ideal figure ideal fluid ideal gas ideal image ideal reproducing head ideal society ideal solid ideal state le beau ideal. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ideal": ideal-average, ideal-standard, ideal-type, ideal-types, ideal-typical, ideal-typically.

Ending with "ideal": near-ideal, non-ideal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ideal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ideal weight

1,038

ideal

521

ideal body weight

446

ideal cut diamond

236

ideal weight chart

162

ideal weight calculator

112

ideal industry

103

ideal tool

96

ideal standard

83

la ideal

82
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Modern Translations: Ideal

Language Translations for "ideal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

ideaal. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

ideal (it, mental, nonpareil), model i përkryer. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مفهومي (notional), ‏مثل أعلى (idea), ‏مثالي (exemplary, idealistic, model, perfect, platonic, starry eyed, typical, unearthly, utopian, visionary), ‏مثال أعلى, ‏مثال (copy, epitome, example, exemplar, image, model, paradigm, pattern, picture, quintessence, specimen, symbol, type), ‏هدف (aim, butt, clout, end, goal, intent, intention, mark, object, objective, plan, purpose, study, target, tendency, view), ‏ذهني (intellectual, mental), ‏خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary), ‏المثالي (idealist, quixotic, utopist). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съвършен (consummate, finished, full, indefectible, masterly, out and out, outright, perfect, right-down, spheral, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, transcendent, unexceptionable, very), въображаем (abstract, fancy, fictional, imaginary, mythical, mythological, notional, phantom, unreal, visional, visionary), образцов (classic, classical, exemplary, master, model, pattern, show, standard), образец (copy, epitome, example, exemplar, form, mirror, model, mould, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, piece, sample, sampling, scantling, shape, specimen, swatch, type), нереален (aerial, aeriform, chimerical, fanciful, insubstantial, metaphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, vaporous), мислен (mental), идеален (perfect), идеал (dream, idea, it). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

理想 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

ideální, ideál, vzorný (exemplary, immaculate, model, perfect), vzor (design, exemplar, model, mould, paradigm, paragon, pattern, representative, standard, type), dokonalý (accomplished, cast iron, consummate, immaculate, impeccable, perfect, proficient, thorough, unqualified, utter, very). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ideal. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ideaal. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

idealo, ideala. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

fyrimyndarligur (classic, classical). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

هدف زندگی , کمال مطلوب , ایده ال , ارمان , ارزو (Ambition, Appetite, Desire, Will, Wish), دلخواه (Accord, Arbitrary, Wish). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ihanteellinen (idealistic), ihanne, aatteellinen (high-minded, idealistic, non-profit-making, non-real). (various references)

   

French

  

idéal (ideals). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ideaal. (various references)

   

German

  

ideal (ideally, perfect), vorbildlich (exemplary, model, perfect). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ιδεώδησ, ιδανικόσ (imaginary), ιδανικό (aspiration). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מופתי (exemplary, model), מופת (example, exemplar, model, pattern, proof), משאת פש, אי"אלי, אי"אל. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ideális, ideál (beau ideal). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

idaman (appetite, craving), gayuh (aspiration, hang low), cita-cita (aspiration, goal, grief). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ideale (cause). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

誂え向き (most suitable), 観念的 , 理想的 , 理想 , 絶好 (best, perfect), 究竟 (appropriate, excellent, final, handy, superb, ultimate), 持って来い (just right, perfectly suitable), 最良 (the best), 典型的 (model, representative, typical), 好適 (fit, fitted, fitting, suitable), アイソトープ治療 (ID card, idea, idea man, idealism, identification card, isolation, isolation syndrome, isolator, isometric, isometrics, isoparametric, isotonic, isotope therapy, item, something that one "just has to have"). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぜっ"う (best, breach, perfect, school), くっきょう (appropriate, excellent, handy, muscular, obstinate, robust, sturdy, superb), さいりょう (admeasure, discretion, management, measurement, superintendence, supervision, supervisor, the best), か"ね"てき, "うてき (fit, fitted, fitting, official, public, public enemy, suitable), りそうてき, りそう, あつらえむき (most suitable), アイディアル , もって"い (just right, perfectly suitable), て"けいてき (model, representative, typical). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

이상 (Abnormalities, Abnormality). (various references)

   

Manx

  

slanjeant, ard-smooinaght. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

ideell, forbilde. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

ideal. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

idealay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

imaginário (aerial, airy, etherization, fancy, fantastic, fictitious, imaginary, imagination, notional, of fantasy, overground, unreal), plano (cadre, champaign, concoction, design, designing, device, diagram, dodge, dodgy, draught, even, flat, flat constraint set, frame, framing, game, groundwork, inset, layout, level, line, plain, plan, plane, project, proposition, scheme, smattering, smooth, surface, system, tier), ídolo (idol, image). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ideal (excellent, ideally, idol, lodestar), ţintã (aim, blaze, butt, clout, design, end, goal, hobnail, nail, object, objective, peg, pin, purport, purpose, pursuit, tack, target, weltnail, whither). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

идеальный (unimprovable). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

idealan, ideal, uzor (classic, model, paragon, standard, type). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ideal (dream, lead, nonesuch). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ideal (exemplar, ideals), idealisk (quixotic). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แบบอย่างที่"ี, อุ"มคติ, ซึ่งอยู่ในความคิ", "ีเลิศ (royal, select, superb). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ideal (aim, apotheosis, dream, dreamboat, goal, mission, optimal, optimum, pattern, soaring, utopian), mükemmel şey (dainty, groove, prime, snorter), kusursuz örnek, gaye (aim, cause, consummation, intent, intention, object, purpose), erek (aim, drift, end, goal, intention, land of promise, objective, promised land, terminus), amaç (aim, bourn, Bourne, cause, consummation, design, destination, dream, drift, function, goal, idea, intent, intention, meaning, mission, object, objective, plan, point, purpose, purview, scope, sense, target, terminus, turn, use, view, wherefore, will), ülkü (halo). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

ideal (r). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ідеальний (theoretical), ідеалістичний (idealistic), ідеал (nonesuch, nonpareil), взірець (cast, exemplar, fugleman, nonesuch, norm, number, sampling), мислений (mental, tacit), абстрактний (abstract, abstracted, abstractive, noetic, non-figurative, nonrepresentational, notional, presentative), досконалий (accomplished, complete, in depth, perfect, precious). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vật lý tưởng cái tinh thần, lý tưởng người lý tưởng, chỉ có trong trí tưởng tượng. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

delfrydol, delfryd. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ideal

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

exemplar, exemplari, exemplaria, exemplarque, specimen. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

idealis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ideal

Derivations

Words beginning with "ideal": idealess, idealise, idealised, idealises, idealising, idealism, idealisms, idealist, idealistic, idealistically, idealists, idealities, ideality, idealization, idealizations, idealize, idealized, idealizer, idealizers, idealizes, idealizing, idealless, ideally, idealogies, idealogue, idealogues, idealogy, ideals. (additional references)

Words ending with "ideal": nonideal, unideal. (additional references)

Words containing "ideal": overidealistic, overidealize, overidealized, overidealizes, overidealizing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Ideal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cidhal, Dibela, Edela, Edgealt, eleal, Fidoao, idaea, idaian, idal, ideaa, idead, idealy, idean, idear, ideel, idei, ideia, idel, idela, idella, idely, ideog, Ideval, Idgah, Idil, idila, idiol, idoel, idyla, igeal, ileal, imeal, Inderal, Indral, irdial, irela, Itela, Iudaei, izeal, odeal, Rideau. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ideal"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ideal" (pronounced īdē"l)
3-d ē" ldeal, diel, ordeal.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Ideal

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ailed.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l"

-1 letter: aide, dale, deal, deil, deli, dial, diel, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lead, lied.

-2 letters: aid, ail, ale, dal, del, die, eld, lad, lea, led, lei, lid, lie.

-3 letters: ad, ae, ai, al, de, ed, el, id, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l"
 

+1 letter: aedile, afield, aisled, alined, aliped, allied, ariled, audile, bailed, deasil, denial, derail, detail, dialed, dialer, dilate, eidola, elapid, failed, hailed, halide, ideals, jailed, laddie, ladies, laired, lazied, mailed, medial, nailed, pleiad, railed, redial, relaid, sailed, tailed, vailed, vialed, wailed.

 

+2 letters: addible, aediles, aidless, alcaide, alibied, alidade, aliened, aligned, alipeds, aliunde, annelid, anviled, applied, audible, audiles, availed, baldies, beadily, bedrail, bipedal, brailed, caviled, cedilla, citadel, claimed, dailies, dallied, dallier, dallies, dariole, dealing, decimal, declaim, decrial, delaine, deliria, deltaic, denials, derails, details, devisal, dialect, dialers, dialled, diallel, dialler, dialyse, dialyze, diazole, dilated, dilater, dilates, dilemma, disable, dualize, edictal, elapids, emailed, flailed, gallied, geoidal, gladier, glaired, glaived, halides, headily, helipad, hidable, ideally, impaled, implead, inhaled, inlaced, isolead, laddies, lapides, lardier, leadier, leading, liaised, ligated, limeade, lindane, medials, medical, melodia, miauled, misdeal, mislead, oedipal, palsied, piebald, plaided, plained, plaited, pleiads, predial, quailed, radiale, radicel, radicle, rallied, readily, redials, redtail, ridable, rivaled, sallied, sedilia, snailed, taliped, tallied, trailed, unideal, uredial, vedalia, vialled.

 

+3 letters: abseiled, aecidial, airfield, alcaides, alcidine, algicide, alidades, alighted, alkoxide, altitude, annelids, anvilled, arillode, articled, assailed, assoiled, audibles, auricled, beadlike, bedrails, beladied, beladies, bewailed, biasedly, biddable, bidental, bilander, billhead, bindable, bivalved, blindage, brailled, buddleia, calcined, calibred, camailed, canfield, cavilled, cedillas, chaliced, ciliated, citadels, climaxed, dalliers, darioles, darklier, dateline, datively, dawnlike, dayflies, deadlier, deadlift, deadline, dealfish, dealings, decidual, decimals, declaims, decrials, defilade, deicidal, deifical, delaines, delating, delation, delaying, delicacy, delicate, deniable, deniably, dentalia, dentinal, depilate, deprival, derailed, detailed, detailer, detrital, devisals, diablery, diacetyl, dialects, diallage, diallers, dialoged, dialoger, dialogue, dialysed, dialyser, dialyses, dialyzed, dialyzer, dialyzes, diastole, diazoles, dihedral, dilatate, dilaters, dilative, dilemmas, dimmable, diplegia, dippable, dipteral, disabled, disables, dismaler, displace, disvalue, divalent, dovetail, dragline, drawlier, dreamily, drearily, drivable, dualized, dualizes, dulcinea, dutiable, dyslexia, ecdysial, ecocidal, editable, elaterid, endemial, enfilade, entailed, epidural, evadible, exordial, fairlead, filiated, finagled, findable, finialed, foliaged, foliated, gadflies, gilthead, gimbaled, gladiate, gladiest, gladlier, gliadine, glissade, goadlike, grillade, guidable, halidome, handlike, hardline, hayfield, headline, headsail, helipads, heraldic, hilloaed, idealess, idealise, idealism, idealist, ideality, idealize, idealogy, idolater, imbalmed, imblazed, impleads, inflamed, inflated, inlander, inwalled, islanded, islander, isolated, isoleads, keloidal, khedival, labiated, lacertid, ladening, ladylike, laicised, laicized, lakeside, landline, landmine, landside, lapidate, lardiest, lardlike, lariated, latitude, latticed, lavished, leadiest, leadings, librated, limeades, lindanes, lineated, liquated, maidenly, maladies, maledict, maligned, mandible, medaling, medalist, medallic, medially, medianly, medicals, medieval, melamdim, melanoid, melodias, melodica, miladies, misdeals, misdealt, misleads, misplead, nailhead, nonideal, oeillade, overlaid, oxidable, palinode, palisade, panicled, pantiled, parslied, pedalier, pedaling, pedipalp, peridial, petaloid, piebalds, pileated, pillaged, pillared, pineland, pleading, pleiades, plicated, praedial, radiable, radicels, radicles, railhead, realised, realized, redialed, redtails, remailed, remedial, renailed, resailed, residual, retailed, rideable, rivalled, salaried, salified, sandlike, sandpile, semibald, sepaloid, sidereal, sidewalk, sidewall, signaled, slidable, slideway, sodalite, spadille, spiraled, steadily, tailored, talipeds, tideland, toadlike, tripedal, unallied, unhailed, unnailed, validate, variedly, vedalias, violated, voidable, windable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ideal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 64 65 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -..    .    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01100100 01100101 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#100 &#101 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0064 0065 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4370716778

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