idealistic
eye-dee-uh-LIS-tikadjMeaning guided by ideals of how things should be, rather than by what is practical
Memory hook IDEAL-istic: aiming for the IDEAL world. Lila wants a world where everyone shares, no one is ever lonely and every day has cake. She is idealistic.
The idealistic young teacher believed that every student could learn to love poetry.
In context Her plan to feed every hungry family in town by the end of summer was idealistic: the goal was beautiful, but she had no money, no truck and only three volunteers.
Similar high-minded, romantic, principled
Opposite pragmatic, realistic, cynical
From ideal, from Late Latin idealis, from Greek idea, “form, pattern.”