Ideal and Key

Ideal

Ideal adjective - Dealing with or expressing a quality or idea.

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Key and ideal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Key" instead the word "Ideal" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: idea, idealistic, ideally, idealize, idealise

Key adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

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Ideal and key are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ideal" instead the word "Key" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: keyed, keyboard, keying

physical	physical ideal	physical key
particular	particular ideal	particular key
similar	similar ideal	similar key
certain	certain ideal	certain key
Other adjectives: standard, original, true, powerful, actual, real, main, white, new, mysterious, higher, cosmic.

It's effectively portrayed as the ideal civilisation, with innovation, freedom and self-perfection being key but not sacrificing security and commonwealth like many libertarian dystopias.

Source: Utopia
The key words there being "ideal" and "dream", as Shiori points out since nobody is that perfect unless they're putting up an act.

Source: Manga / Last Game
Star Trek: Enterprise and several novels in the Expanded Universe have gone on to explore Vulcan culture in considerable depth, and one of the key facts about the Vulcan ideal of logic and rationalism is that it is just that, an ideal.

Source: Maligned Mixed Marriage

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