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[ noun ] someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations

Synonyms

dreamer

Used in print

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

Emerson - Platonist , idealist , doctrinaire - sounded a high Transcendental note in his `` Boston_Hymn '' , delivered in 1863 in the Boston Music_Hall amidst thundering applause : `` Pay ransom to the owner and fill the bag to the brim .

It is the abstractionism , the unrealism , of the pure idealist .

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