Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb idealize

2 senses of idealize

Sense 1
idealize, idealise -- (consider or render as ideal; "She idealized her husband after his death")
       => see, consider, reckon, view, regard -- (deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do")

Sense 2
idealize, idealise -- (form ideals; "Man has always idealized")
       => think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct -- (devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software")