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visional

American  
[vizh-uh-nl] / ˈvɪʒ ə nl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to visions.

  2. belonging to or seen in a vision.


visional British  
/ ˈvɪʒənəl /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or seen in a vision, apparition, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of visional

First recorded in 1580–90; vision + -al 1

Example Sentences

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It suggests "some visional insight into the nature of reality that somehow cuts through the veil of appearances into something transcendent, beyond, that’s wholly other."

From Scientific American • Oct. 29, 2017

Pavel Nikolaevich Miliukov, 84, Russian historian and revolutionist, For eign Minister of Russia's short-lived Pro visional Government of 1917; in Aix-les-Bains, France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last June the Pro visional Government ruled that collaborationist newspapers, including those mentioned by Pertinax, shall be suspended and their property confiscated as France is freed.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1919 the exiles organized a Pro visional Government at Shanghai.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tennyson supplied one in the visional passages in the Princess.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe

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