idealized
adjective
(UKusuallyidealised)uk/aɪˈdɪə.laɪzd/us/aɪˈdiː.ə.laɪzd/involvingthinkingof orrepresentingsomeone or something asbetterthan thatpersonor thing really is:
Thefilmpresentsa very idealizedviewof 19th-century Ireland.
Shebecameaniconand an idealizedsymbolof women'sachievement.
See
idealize
- Historicalpaintingswererarelyidealized for thesakeofbeauty.
- We werepresentedwith an idealizedimageof a 19th-centuryporttown.
- Shearguesthat the idealizedplotswithhappyendingsin thesenovelsare, infact,allegories.
True, real, false, and unreal
- actual
- actuality
- actually
- all that glitters is not goldidiom
- apocryphal
- faithful
- fake news
- false
- false flag
- falsely
- nothing could be further from the truthidiom
- nothing could have been further from my mind/thoughtsidiom
- parallel universe
- post-factual
- practically
- veridical
- verifiability
- verifiable
- verifiably
- verily