(a.) Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
(a.) Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
(a.) Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
(a.) Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
(a.) Imaginary.
(n.) A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
(4) As bacterial vaginosis is generally looked upon as a mild noninflammatory condition lactate-gel seems to be an ideal treatment for this disease.
(5) Using four 4 cm electrodes at intervals of 1.5 cm in VX-2 carcinoma in the rabbit, ideal heating was obtained: 42 degrees C at the periphery of the tumor and 43 degrees C at the center.
(6) The regimen used at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, provides 2.0 to 2.5 gm protein per kilogram ideal body weight, plus adequate fluid and nutrient supplements.
(7) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(8) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(9) From a practical viewpoint, this approach to prevention is less than ideal because it results in considerable costs as health care providers monitor for possible hepatotoxic effects and because it is difficult to maintain compliance for 12 months.
(10) Ideally, the rule should classify all nonhyperplastic and mildly hyperplastic cases as nonprogressive and all carcinomas as progressive; there were, however, a considerable number of false positives and false negatives based on application of the classification rule to these cases.
(11) Whether we would use that to support and amplify the community ideals already present or go the way of gentrification remained to be seen.
(12) Gallium arsenide has proved to be an ideal substrate material for some uses but is associated with unique health hazards.
(13) The ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by the following formula: ideal body mass index x the height (m)2, since body mass index is expressed by the body weight in kilogram divided by the height squared in meters.
(14) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(15) Therefore, it is an ideal method for the isolation of cell cycle phase specific populations.
(16) Without suggesting an ideal medication for this syndrome, the authors have obtained good results with barbexaclone.
(17) Actions achieved or a long commitment to an ideal, often through hardship.
(18) The integrated sensing system is an ideal instrumental set up for viewing and recording the behaviour of rodents as well as other animals in the experimental pen throughout the year under varying weather and light conditions.
(19) This experiment investigated people's preferences for the location of facilities in an ideal town.
(20) Need Score for each content area was calculated by taking the difference between Ideal and Current Expertise responses.
Worthy
Definition:
(n.) Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
(n.) Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
(n.) Of high station; of high social position.
(n.) A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
(v. t.) To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new technique of HFCA is worthy of further development.
(2) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(3) He told FA.com: “In my opinion, we were worthy winners.
(4) Actually, I think these are worthy subjects for discussion but, unfortunately, we don't have the time.
(5) Also worthy of consideration is the intensity of the outer layers of the synthetic grafts whose organization may have been compromised to some extent in favor of an improved patency ratio, particularly in recent years.
(6) In current practice, some of the goals cannot be met; they should be considered as targets worthy of achievement, not as inflexible criteria of acceptance or rejection of methods.
(7) It was worthy to be mentioned that both the incidence and mortality rate of NPC were relatively stable in 1970-1984.
(8) The Pucci Saturday night show was a fairly typical glamorous display with op art prints, 70s shapes and jetset-worthy wafty dresses – all the things Dundas has done so successfully – worn by supermodels including Eva Herzigova, Karie Kloss, Joan Smalls and Natasha Poly.
(9) He asked Cameron to write to Bawtree to say he believed the idea was worthy of endorsement.
(10) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(11) The Sounders’ season has been popularly characterized by the Dempsey-Martins partnership — and the MVP-worthy form of the latter in particular.
(12) A minimally invasive surgical technique is proposed which considerably simplifies the Stamey technique, shortens the surgical time and fives a weighted success rate of over 80%, which makes it worthy of consideration in treating female urinary incontinence.
(13) Nursing is therefore, a profession worthy of respect, that which has a unique function of curing and assisting individuals, families and community:- sick or well to reach whole completeness or independency.
(14) 3.22pm BST Mr Burnham’s suggestion is a worthy addition to all the rest – the mobile phone charges, the annexation of Faslane, embassies refusing to hold whisky receptions!
(15) The result is worthy of comparison to the winsome Americana that Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra put out in the late 60s.
(16) In this regard the role played by statistical methods appears to be specially worthy of consideration, so as to define the capabilities of a given surveillance system in identifying increasing risks.
(17) I work with a pacifist organisation; I don’t want to feel like I have to prove to everyone that I am worthy of being a member of this society when I have contributed so much.” Members of Amnesty International attended the peaceful demonstration, which drew little attention from the police.
(18) In carcinoma of the rectum occurring in patients in whom surgery represents a high risk, the problem of local treatment is worthy of discussion in certain precisely defined cases.
(19) A further three sites were examined, at Druridge Bay in Northumberland, Kingsnorth in Kent and Owston Ferry in South Yorkshire, and although "worthy of consideration", have been rejected for now.
(20) Using worthy contributions of the systemic theories, the authors analyze the ambiguity of such a request and the paradox underlying it, namely, to take care of a "normal" family crisis.