idealise

/ai'diəlaiz/ Cách viết khác : (idealise) /ai'diəlaiz/

Thân thiện

She tends to idealise her childhood summers spent at the lake.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To consider or represent someone or something as perfect or better than in reality: To regard or portray a person, object, or situation as conforming to an ideal standard, often ignoring flaws or imperfections.
   • To form ideals or conceptions of perfection: To create or hold up an idealized model or standard.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:
  • It is common for fans to idealise their favourite celebrities, overlooking their human flaws.
  • The artist chose to idealise the landscape, painting it as a serene paradise.
  • In his memoirs, he tended to idealise his childhood, remembering only the happy times.

Advanced Usage

• "to idealise about": To think or dream about something in an idealized, often unrealistic, way.
  • She would often idealise about a future where all social problems were solved.
• Used in psychological or sociological contexts to describe a cognitive process.
  • The study examined how media causes young people to idealise certain body types.

Variants and Related Words

• Idealisation (noun): The act or process of idealising, or the result of it.
  • The idealisation of rural life is a common theme in his poetry.
• Idealised (adjective): Represented as ideal or perfect.
  • The film presents an idealised version of historical events.

Synonyms

• Glorify: To represent as admirable, especially unjustifiably.
• Romanticise: To make something seem more appealing or romantic than it really is.
• Exalt: To hold in very high regard.

Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions

• Idealise away: (Less common) To dismiss or ignore realities by substituting an ideal.
  • You cannot simply idealise away the practical difficulties of the plan.

Related Idioms

• To put someone on a pedestal: To admire someone so much that you treat them as perfect (a concept closely related to idealising).
  • By constantly praising her, he had idealised her; he had put her on a pedestal from which any fall would be painful.

Học thuật

Verb

1. form ideals
   • Man has always idealized
2. consider or render as ideal
   • She idealized her husband after his death

Từ đồng nghĩa

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