idealized
adjective, verb
idealized is an adjective meaning “Regarded as ideal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-D-E-A-L-I-Z-E-D and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does idealized mean?
adjective
- 1
BritishUSRegarded as ideal.
- 2
BritishUSConsidered as an ideal form of something.
verb
- 1
BritishUSsimple past and past participle of idealize.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce idealized?
Idealized has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of idealized
- idealised
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is idealized?
Idealized appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).