Definition of "unideal" [un•i•de•al]

• Not ideal. (adjective)

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• "The object is unideal, that is, the novel, external element is inharmonious with the revived and internal element by suggesting which the object has been apperceived."
• "Our criticism has never opened its arms wide enough to embrace all imaginative literature as poetry, and in the English sense nothing in the world's drama is denser or more unqualified prose than The Enemy of the People, without a tinge of romance or rhetoric, as "unideal" as a blue-book."
• "Our criticism has never opened its arms wide enough to embrace all imaginative literature as poetry, and in the English sense nothing in the world's drama is denser or more unqualified prose than _The Enemy of the People_, without a tinge of romance or rhetoric, as "unideal" as a blue-book."