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# idealised

«idealised» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make someone or something seem more perfect or lovely…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (idealise, idealises, idealised, idealising; American spelling idealize)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make someone or something seem more perfect or lovely than it really is, showing only the good side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idealised/#m1)

2) In art, to paint or draw a person or thing as more beautiful than in life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idealised/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, an artist or writer shows a perfect picture instead of a true one: «an idealised village»

### examples

- The painter idealised the queen, so she looked flawless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idealised/#x1)
- The story idealised village life and left out the hard work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idealised/#x2)
- Do not idealise your friends; everyone has faults. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idealised/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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