Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for I-DE'AL
I-DE'AL, a.
- Existing in idea; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge. There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence. Rambler.
- Visionary; existing in fancy or imagination only; as, ideal good.
- That considers ideas as images, phantasms, or forms in the mind; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
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