Log in or Sign up
  1. nonideal love

Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Not ideal

Examples

  • “Each year we were mildly disappointed with the condition of the grapes -- they were growing the plants for wood, not for grapes, so they were nonideal for wine.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Meeting the Winemakers

  • “The cross, she said, is the symbol of the sacrifice of the ideal to the nonideal. ...”

    The Seattle Times

  • “It is a way to make the best of a nonideal situation, which is that the orchestra lacks a permanent home.”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “Because of the subjective nature of value and the impossibility of interpersonal utility comparisons, the social-cost and social-benefit curves used to define the nonideal nature of externalities simply do not exist.”

    Information Liberation

  • “Other solutions adapt a classic nonideal RF transceiver architecture which compromises performance, increases complexity, and consumes significantly more power.”

    Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox

  • “The model can also incorporate nonideal behavior, such as sampling jitter and operational-amplifier noise.”

    Engineering Hardware-Software

  • “If I were a Christian, nothing could make me more indignant than that: the notion of sacrificing the ideal to the nonideal, or virtue to vice.”

    The Thinklings

  • “Yet, according to the Christian mythology, he died on the cross not for his own sins but for the sins of the nonideal people.”

    The Thinklings

  • “I do regard the cross as the symbol of the sacrifice of the ideal to the nonideal.”

    The Thinklings

Lists

‘nonideal’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for nonideal.

‘nonideal’ has been looked up 441 times, and has a Scrabble score of 9.