[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

idealistic \ide`alis"tic\, a.
   of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

idealistic
     adj 1: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality
            of ideas syn: ideal
     2: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or
        style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown
        ideals"- oliver franks; "a noble and lofty concept" syn:
        exalted, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied,
         rarified, noble-minded
see also:
ideal exalted high-flown high-minded lofty rarefied 
rarified noble-minded 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

101 moby thesaurus words for "idealistic":
   berkeleian, cyrenaic, eleatic, epicurean, hegelian, kantian,
   megarian, neoplatonic, neoplatonistic, platonic, platonistic,
   stoic, airy, animist, animistic, atomistic, autistic, big,
   bighearted, chivalrous, cosmotheistic, dereistic, eclectic,
   elevated, empirical, eudaemonistic, exalted, existential, generous,
   great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hedonic, hedonist,
   hedonistic, heroic, high, high-minded, humanist, humanistic,
   idealist, immaterialist, impractical, in the clouds,
   instrumentalist, knightly, largehearted, liberal, lofty,
   magnanimous, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic,
   naturalistic, noble, noble-minded, nominalist, openhanded,
   optimistic, otherworldly, panlogistical, panpsychist,
   panpsychistic, pantheistic, poetic, positivist, positivistic,
   pragmatic, pragmatist, princely, quixotic, rationalistic, realist,
   realistic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, scholastic,
   sensationalistic, solipsistic, spiritualist, spiritualistic,
   starry-eyed, storybook, sublime, syncretistic, theistic,
   transcendental, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic,
   transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, utilitarian, visionary,
   vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, wish-fulfilling

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