ideal
noun
a conception of something in its perfection.
unideal
-
a word derived from
ideal.
Example Sentences
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In the case of TRAPPIST-1’s planets, this means that one hemisphere may experience eternal daytime, and the other, eternal night: perhaps unideal conditions for life to evolve.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023
“We held onto hope as long as we could,” but a forecast of unideal conditions forced a delay, the resort wrote on its website Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Are we teachers to wait for ideal conditions before trying to help these unideal children learn to use what they have in the best way possible in an imperfect world?
From Time Magazine Archive
The splayed, unideal awkwardness of the figures, and the way they appear half buried in the ground, can be traced to Degas's bronzes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here and there, however, a passage in his letters suggests the inference, that the character of the gallant mercenary was toned to his profession, and to the unideal epoch in which he lived.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
