Englishideally
adverb
ideally, everyone should have enough to live on:
in a perfect world, in a utopia;
preferably, if possible, for preference, by preference, from choice, by choice, as a matter of choice, much rather, rather;
all things being equal, theoretically, hypothetically, in theory, in principle, on paper;
French en principe.
▷antonyms in practice, in reality.