Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

platonic ideal

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English

Syllables: pla-ton-ic ide-al
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A perfect, idealized notion of something, taken to exist beyond the physical world.

Example Sentences

"We used the US constitution as the Platonic ideal of the ideology of our new state."

Inflected Forms

Platonic ideals (plural)

Questions

What does platonic ideal mean?: A perfect, idealized notion of something, taken to exist beyond the physical world.

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