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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Nice man, met him, always treated as kind of business visionary, and fair enough!
“Iger was really the visionary deal maker and the global brand quarterback,” said Bill Campbell, head of research for Paragon Intel in Connecticut.
From Los Angeles Times
Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger also paid tribute to the director, whom he called “a creative visionary whose many contributions to Disney will live on for generations to come.”
From Los Angeles Times
Guided by visionary coach Curt Cignetti, Indiana has spent the College Football Playoff walloping blueblood programs like Alabama and Knight’s Oregon Ducks.
This is Mark Zuckerberg, the paranoid visionary who is always on the lookout for the next thing that could disrupt Meta.
From Barron's
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