| 单词 | idealize |
| 释义 | idealize (once / 3400 pages) v When you idealize something, you think of it as being much better than it really is. You might idealize your beach vacation, completely forgetting that it rained almost every day. If you idealize your favorite teacher, you imagine that he's even more wonderful than he actually is. Many people tend to idealize marriage, believing that simply being married will make them and their partners blissfully happy all the time. To idealize is to take an ordinary, flawed thing, and turn it into something ideal. In fact, ideal, or "perfect," is at the heart of idealize, with its root of the Latin idealis, or "existing in idea." WORD FAMILYidealize: idealization, idealized, idealizes, idealizing+/idea: ideal, ideas, ideate/ideal: idealise, idealism, ideality, idealize, ideally, ideals/idealisation: idealisations/idealise: idealisation, idealised, idealises, idealising/idealism: idealisms, idealist, idealistic/idealist: idealists/idealistic: idealistically/ideality: idealities/idealization: idealizations/ideate: ideated, ideating, ideation/ideation: ideational, ideations/ideational: ideationally USAGE EXAMPLESI idealize this person, this new friend, new acquaintance, whoever. Salon(Dec 29, 2016) “In the managerial ideology,” Whyte writes, “it is not the leaders of industry that are idealized—if anything, they are scolded—but the lieutenants.” The New Yorker(Dec 29, 2016) The true danger of human nature is to idealize anything that’s already happened, be it the repressive 1950s or fancy-free Clinton era. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) 1v consider or render as ideal She idealized her husband after his death Syn|Hypo|Hyper idealise glamorize, glamourise, romanticise, romanticize interpret romantically deifyconsider as a god or godlike apotheose, apotheosise, apotheosizedeify or glorify consider, reckon, regard, see, view deem to be 2v form ideals Man has always idealized Syn|Hyper idealise concoct, dream up, hatch, think of, think up devise or invent |
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