visionary
Americanadjective
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given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable, or unpractical ideas, views, or schemes.
a visionary enthusiast.
- Synonyms:
- impracticable, impractical
- Antonyms:
- practical
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given to or concerned with seeing visions.
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belonging to or seen in a vision.
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unreal; imaginary.
visionary evils.
- Synonyms:
- chimerical, illusory, fancied
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purely idealistic or speculative; impractical; unrealizable.
a visionary scheme.
- Synonyms:
- unrealistic
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of, relating to, or proper to a vision.
noun
plural
visionaries-
a person of unusually keen foresight.
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a person who sees visions.
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a person who is given to audacious, highly speculative, or impractical ideas or schemes; dreamer.
adjective
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marked by vision or foresight
a visionary leader
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incapable of being realized or effected; unrealistic
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(of people) characterized by idealistic or radical ideas, esp impractical ones
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given to having visions
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of, of the nature of, or seen in visions
noun
Other Word Forms
- nonvisionary adjective
- unvisionary adjective
- visionariness noun
Etymology
Origin of visionary
Example Sentences
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She is a poet, musician, activist, sound designer, organizer, curator, visual artist and Afrofuturist visionary.
From Los Angeles Times
Poets may not strike our Operation Epic Fury Navy pilots as aviation visionaries.
His visionary management would define the organization in other ways.
The grunge collection may have helped define the era’s style and, in later years, proven Jacobs’ visionary status.
From Salon
Mr. Ashton, a tech figure known for coining the phrase “the Internet of Things,” seems to regard himself as something of a progressive visionary.
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