Ideal
Ideal adjective - Dealing with or expressing a quality or idea.
Usage example: honesty is an ideal entity that has more admirers than practitioners
Material
Material adjective - Relating to or composed of matter.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Then someone discovered that whalebone made an ideal reinforcing material for corsets.
Source: The Fool / Real Life - Marx adapted this method and applied it to the history of the material rather than the ideal.
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She owns shelves full of these, and considers them ideal casual reading material.
Source: Tome of Eldritch Lore
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