IDEALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does idealise mean? 

• IDEALISE (verb)
  The verb IDEALISE has 2 senses:

1. consider or render as ideal

2. form ideals

  Familiarity information: IDEALISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IDEALISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they idealise    ... he / she / it idealises   
Past simple: idealised   
Past participle: idealised   
-ing form: idealising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consider or render as ideal

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

idealise; idealize

Context example:

She idealized her husband after his death

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

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

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

glamorize; glamourise; romanticise; romanticize (interpret romantically)

deify (consider as a god or godlike)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

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

idealisation ((psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form ideals

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

idealise; idealize

Context example:

Man has always idealized

Hypernyms (to "idealise" 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)

 Context examples 

This was contrasted by parents who had a ‘distorted’ representation of their child, with a narrow, idealised description of their child, and incomplete or inconsistent descriptions of them.

(Mother’s attitude towards baby during pregnancy may have implications for child’s development, University of Cambridge)