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Definition: Meaning of, ideal in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ʌɪˈdɪəl;ʌɪˈdiːəl /

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  1. the best or most suitable that something could possibly be
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  2. [only before noun] an ideal world, job, system etc is one that you imagine to be perfect, but that is not likely to really exist
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ideal ideals
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  1. a principle about what is morally right or a perfect standard that you hope to achieve
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  2. a perfect example of what something should be like
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ideal used in phrases

  • Carnot's ideal cycle (noun)
    1. of expansion and compression a cycle of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat
  • Ideal Home
    1. a British magazine containing pictures of beautiful houses and articles about ways to decorate your own home
  • Ideal Home Exhibition, the
    1. an EXHIBITION of furniture and objects for the house, held every year in London
  • ego ideal (noun)
    1. psychoanalysis the part of the ego that contains an ideal of personal excellence toward which a person strives
  • ideal gas (noun)
    1. a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces
  • ideal solid (noun)
    1. any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent
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