. Entity or attribute of a kind suggested by ‘IDEA’. ‘Ideal’ suggests freedom from the imperfections of the material world, together with unattainability (cf. Platonic ‘Ideas’), but also the unreality of what depends...

1. A desirable state which is not usually achievable. 2. A moral value that should be striven for. 3. An abstract representation of the basic characteristics of a phenomenon, eg ideal...

Ideal may refer to: Ideal (ethics), principles or values that one actively pursues as goals Platonic ideal, a philosophical idea of trueness of form, associated with Plato In mathematics Ideal (ring theory), special subsets of a ring considered in...