idealist
noun
I was once an idealist like you |
a political idealist who stood for universal moral values:
utopian, visionary, wishful thinker, pipe-dreamer, fantasist, fantasizer, romantic, romanticist, romancer, castle-builder, Walter Mitty, Don Quixote, dreamer, daydreamer, impractical person, unrealistic person;
rare fantast, reverist.
▷antonyms realist; cynic; defeatist.
idealist Oxford Dictionary of English