Lofty standards

The answer

IDEALS

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDEALS answer page.

Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IDEALS

Every other clue in this collection answered by IDEALS, most used first.

• Paragons - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• High standards - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Standards of perfection - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Lofty goals - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Paradigms - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Standards of excellence - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Worthy principles - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Standards - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Worthy aims - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Goals - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• High principles - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Lofty principles - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Noble principles - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Perfect models - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Things to uphold - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Exemplars - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Models of perfection - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Noble goals - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Lofty. - AERIAL, used 13 times
• Moral standards - ETHICS, used 13 times
• Have lofty goals - ASPIRE, used 12 times
• Gold standards - KARATS, used 10 times
• Set a lofty goal - ASPIRE, used 9 times
• Set lofty goals - ASPIRE, used 9 times

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