sentimentalist

noun

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as in idealist

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  1. idealist
  2. romantic
  3. dreamer
  4. ideologue
Noun
  • The diary belonged to Lam Ping-yu, an ambitious and patriotic idealist who was born to a well-off Chinese family in Indonesia in 1911 and eagerly joined his home country’s navy.
    Peter Guo, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • For instance, his call for all Bitcoin mining to be located in the U.S. rubbed certain crypto idealists the wrong way, as decentralization and immunity to governmental pressures is a key part of the ethos of crypto mining.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 17 July 2024
Definition of idealist
Noun
  • This attempt to coax a conventional romantic through line out of the madness doesn’t really work, partly because Reitman and co-writer Gil Kenan have otherwise done a fine job of making clear how unconventional this whole situation was.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • However, the hopeless romantic in me is not one to say no to a wedding!
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of romantic
Noun
  • Big dreamers have busy minds, need the intense focus of their dreams to carry them through life as far as possible.
    Jim Clash, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • From Chicken Man’s perspective, this guy was a dreamer.
    Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of dreamer
Noun
  • His National Labor Relations Board was laden with anti-labor ideologues.
    Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • In 1940, the Kremlin hunted down one of its revolutionary leaders and communist ideologues, Leon Trotsky, who had been ousted from power after falling out with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
    Owen Hayes, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2024
Definition of ideologue
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