Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by vision or foresight.
- adjective Having the nature of fantasies or dreams; illusory.
- adjective Existing in imagination only; imaginary.
- adjective Characterized by or given to apparitions, prophecies, or revelations.
- adjective Given to daydreams or reverie; dreamy.
- adjective Not practicable or realizable; utopian.
- adjective Tending to envision things in perfect but unrealistic form; idealistic.
- noun One who is given to impractical or speculative ideas; a dreamer.
- noun One who has visions; a seer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Apt to behold visions: of powerful and foreseeing imagination; imaginative; in a bad sense, apt to receive and act on mere fancies or whims as if they were realities; given to indulging in day-dreams, reveries, fanciful theories, or the like.
- Of or pertaining to visions; of the nature of a vision or a product of the imagination; imaginary; in a bad sense, having no real basis; not founded on fact or possibility; impracticable; impossible: as, a visionary scheme.
- Appropriate to or characterized by the appearance of visions.
- Synonyms Imaginative, romantic.
- Unreal, fancied, ideal, illusory, utopian, chimerical.
- noun One who sees visions; one who lives in the imagination.
- noun One who forms impracticable schemes; one who is given to idle and fanciful projects.
- noun Synonyms Dreamer, enthusiast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose imagination is disturbed; one who sees visions or phantoms.
- noun One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.
- adjective Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given to reverie; apt to receive, and act upon, fancies as if they were realities.
- adjective Existing in imagination only; not real; fanciful; imaginary; having no solid foundation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having
vision orforesight - adjective
imaginary orillusory - adjective
prophetic orrevelatory - adjective
idealistic orutopian - noun someone who has
visions ; aseer - noun an
impractical dreamer - noun someone who has positive
ideas about thefuture
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not practical or realizable; speculative
- noun a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
- noun a person with unusual powers of foresight
Etymologies
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Examples
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The word visionary doesn't begin to scratch the surface.
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The word visionary doesn't begin to scratch the surface.
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DOBBS: The White House, says President Bush tonight, will announce what they call visionary proposals to deal with our illegal immigration and border security crises.
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And the bloodbath and stabilizing stages lead to what I call the visionary stage.
Till the Butchers Cut Him Down Muller, Marcia 1994
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Man, that's what I call visionary leadership. by Mike Brett - Mar 4th, 2009 @ 1: 22pm
Techdirt 2009
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Put another way, a "visionary" is a social construction produced by a host of different and overlapping effects.
Balkinization 2007
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And the possible firing of a director -- who has been called visionary by more than a few -- from a musical she has worked on for nine years.
Cara Joy David: The Fall That Was Cara Joy David 2011
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And the possible firing of a director -- who has been called visionary by more than a few -- from a musical she has worked on for nine years.
Cara Joy David: The Fall That Was Cara Joy David 2011
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And the possible firing of a director -- who has been called visionary by more than a few -- from a musical she has worked on for nine years.
Cara Joy David: The Fall That Was Cara Joy David 2011
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And the possible firing of a director -- who has been called visionary by more than a few -- from a musical she has worked on for nine years.
Cara Joy David: The Fall That Was Cara Joy David 2011
ivypluck commented on the word visionary
For some reason, this word is not allowed on Scrabble (Pogo)
August 16, 2010