Ideal synonyms

102 synonyms for ideal such as code of behaviour, absolute, fanciful, abstract, a dream, archetype, and belief. Ideal is an adjective, and its antonyms are imperfect and subpar.

Another word for ideal

1. perfect

Absolute, archetypal, best possible, classic, complete, consummate, copybook, exemplary, faultless, flawless, model, perfect, quintessential, supreme, ultimate, and without fault.

2. unattainable

Fairy-tale, fanciful, fictitious, hypothetical, idealized, imaginary, impracticable, ivory-towered, quixotic, romantic, theoretical, unachievable, unattainable, unfeasible, unreal, unworkable, utopian, and visionary.

3. abstract

Abstract, academic, conceptual, conjectural, conjectured, hypothetical, ideational, intellectual, metaphysical, notional, philosophical, putative, speculative, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive, and theoretical.

4. perfection

A dream, a nonesuch, beau idéal, crème de la crème, epitome, ne plus ultra, nonpareil, one in a million, paragon, perfection, the bee's knees, the last word, the tops, and the ultimate.

5. model

Archetype, belief, code of behaviour, code of honour, conscience, conviction, creed, criterion, decency, ethics, example, exemplar, high-mindedness, honour, ideology, integrity, model, moral value, morality, morals, paradigm, pattern, persuasion, principle, probity, prototype, rectitude, righteousness, rule of living, scruples, sense of duty, sense of honour, standard, uprightness, virtue, and yardstick.

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