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ideal
adjective as in model, perfect
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archetypal, complete, consummate, exemplary, flawless, have-it-all, indefectible, paradigmatic, pie-in-the-sky, prototypical, supreme
adjective as in conceptual; impractical
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abstract, hypothetical, imaginary, intellectual, utopian, visionary
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chimerical, dreamlike, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious, high-flown, in the clouds, ivory-tower, mental, mercurial, notional, out of reach, quixotic, theoretical, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly
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The circumstances were anything but ideal for a team whose season hung in the balance.
Moderna’s mRNA platform, which is capable of editing and updating vaccines in days rather than months, made it the ideal partner for that mission.
While she credits pageants for her professional success, she also acknowledges that it’s not ideal to be “parading women around on a stage in their underwear, essentially, to win a scholarship.”
Fictionalized versions of real-world scenarios are never going to be as accurate as the true experience, but the show’s 1990 version of a platoon better approximates the Marines’ professed ideal.
And so for me, a wonderful, ideal day is going somewhere and just looking at buildings.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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