idealistic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Of or pertaining to an idealist or to idealism.

   But if, as we have seen, Wu's ambivalent attitude toward the conventional route to success originated in his early appreciation of the idealistic virtues of his father, then it is possible that parts of the work could have been written much earlier, perhaps even during his sojourn with his father in Chiang-su.

2. 2
   adj

   of high moral or intellectual value

3. 3
   adj

   of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas

From idealist + -ic or ideal + -istic.

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