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# ideal

«ideal» in Mova's school dictionary: **Perfect, or the best possible for something: an ideal day…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective; noun (an ideal, ideals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (adjective) Perfect, or the best possible for something: an ideal day for a picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/#m1)

2) (adjective) Existing only in the mind, not real: In an ideal world, nobody would be hungry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/#m2)

3) (noun) A belief or aim of how things should be: the ideals of fairness and freedom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/#m3)

4) (noun) A person or thing that is perfect: She is my ideal of a good teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you pick the ideal spot or present; in science «ideal conditions» are the best ones for a plant or experiment; in social studies people fight for their ideals. Phrases: «ideal for», «in an ideal world», «the ideal place», «high ideals».

### examples

- It's an ideal day for flying kites. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/#x1)
- This box is ideal for storing toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/#x2)
- In an ideal world, everyone would have clean water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/#x3)
- Fairness is one of our school's ideals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/#x4)
- Plants grow fast in ideal conditions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/#x5)
- What would your ideal holiday be? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/#x6)
- The theatre was his ideal world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/#x7)

### note

«An ideal» (vowel sound). Adverb: ideally. Not the same as «idea» (a thought). Say «eye-DEE-ul».

### In the corpora

- ["Not ideal" (mostly UK) means bad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/21/)
- [This is not ideal».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/49-a-bit-nippy-and-not-ideal-british-understatement/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ideal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ideal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.