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• political ideals
• she found it hard to live up to his high ideals.
• it's my ideal of what a family home should be.
• a journalist should always live up to the ideals of truth, decency, and justice.

ideal

1. an idea or standard that seems perfect, and worth trying to achieve or obtain
• political ideals
• She found it hard to live up to his high ideals.
2. a person or thing that you think is perfect
• It's my ideal of what a family home should be.

Extra Examples

• A journalist should always live up to the ideals of truth, decency, and justice.
• Platonic ideals of beauty
• Sam was a real leader who had high moral ideals.
• She was accused of betraying her political ideals.
• They still clung to the old ideals.
• This agreement falls far short of the ideal.
• This is not an unattainable ideal.
• We obviously share the same ideals.
• romantic ideals of motherhood
• the democratic ideals embodied in the charter
• Democratic ideals include the principle that everyone should have a say in how they are governed.
• His followers sometimes found it hard to live up to his high ideals.
• Is true love an unattainable ideal?
• It’s my ideal of what a family home should be.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (as a term in Platonic philosophy, in the sense ‘existing as an archetype’): from late Latin idealis, via Latin from Greek idea ‘form, pattern’, from the base of idein ‘to see’.