idealize
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
consider or render as ideal
She idealized her husband after his death
Types & categories
- regard hypernym
- romanticize hyponym
- deify hyponym
Related & opposite
- idealization derivation
- ideal derivation
- idealisation derivation
Sense 2 verb
form ideals
Man has always idealized
Types & categories
- think up hypernym
Related & opposite
- ideal derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | idealization |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ideal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | idealisation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | regard |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | romanticize |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | deify |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ideal |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | think up |