Meanings
plural idealogues
- One given to fanciful ideas or theories; someone who theorizes or speculates.
Government, If veritable and lawful, is not given By imposition of the foreign hand, Nor chosen from a pretty pattern-book Of some domestic idealogue who sits And coldly chooses empire, where as well He might republic.
1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC - Someone who espouses a particular ideology, particularly a political one.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounsomeone who theorizes (especially in science or art)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Compare French idéologue.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 空想家
- 空想家 (kōngxiǎng jiā)someone who theorizes
Spanish ideólogo
- ideólogosomeone who theorizes
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