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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who holds fancies in mind, who believes in perfection |
| Synonyms: | Platonist, dreamer, enthusiast, escapist, optimist, radical, romancer, romantic, romanticist, seer, stargazer, theorizer, transcendentalist, utopian, visionary |
| Antonyms: | pragmatist, realist |
| Main Entry: | optimist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | positive thinker |
| Synonyms: | Pollyanna, dreamer, hoper, idealist |
| Main Entry: | perfectionist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stickler |
| Synonyms: | formalist, fussbudget, fusspot, idealist, nit-picker, purist, quibbler |
| Main Entry: | Pollyanna |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | optimist |
| Synonyms: | dreamer, hoper, idealist, positive thinker |
| Main Entry: | utopian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, ideal |
| Synonyms: | abstract, airy, ambitious, arcadian, chimerical, dream, fanciful, fantasy, grandiose, hopeful, idealist, idealistic, ideological, illusory, impossible, impractical, lofty, otherworldly, perfect, pie-in-the-sky, pretentious, quixotic, romantic, transcendental, unfeasible, visionary |
| Antonyms: | real |
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealized, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, ambitious, astral, chimerical, daydreaming, delusory, dreaming, dreamy, exalted, fanciful, fantastic, grandiose, ideal, idealist, idealistic, illusory, imaginary, impractical, in the clouds, introspective, lofty, musing, noble, otherworldly, pretentious, prophetic, quixotic, radical, speculative, starry-eyed, unreal, unrealistic, unworkable, unworldly, utopian |
| Antonyms: | practical, real, realistic, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who dreams, is idealistic |
| Synonyms: | Don Quixote, castle-builder, daydreamer, dreamer, enthusiast, idealist, mystic, prophet, romancer, romantic, seer, stargazer, theorist, utopian, zealot |
| Antonyms: | realist |
| Main Entry: | escapist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dreamer |
| Synonyms: | evader, idealist, romanticist |
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