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visionary

[ vizh-uh-ner-ee ]

adjective

  1. given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable, or unpractical ideas, views, or schemes:

    a visionary enthusiast.

    Synonyms: impracticable, impractical

    Antonyms: practical

  2. given to or concerned with seeing visions.
  3. belonging to or seen in a vision.
  4. unreal; imaginary:

    visionary evils.

    Synonyms: chimerical, illusory, fancied

  5. purely idealistic or speculative; impractical; unrealizable:

    a visionary scheme.

    Synonyms: unrealistic

  6. of, relating to, or proper to a vision.


noun

, plural vi·sion·ar·ies.
  1. a person of unusually keen foresight.
  2. a person who sees visions.
  3. a person who is given to audacious, highly speculative, or impractical ideas or schemes; dreamer.

visionary

/ ˈvɪʒənərɪ /

adjective

  1. marked by vision or foresight

    a visionary leader

  2. incapable of being realized or effected; unrealistic
  3. (of people) characterized by idealistic or radical ideas, esp impractical ones
  4. given to having visions
  5. of, of the nature of, or seen in visions


noun

  1. a visionary person

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Derived Forms

  • ˈvisionariness, noun

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Other Words From

  • vision·ari·ness noun
  • non·vision·ary adjective noun
  • un·vision·ary adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of visionary1

First recorded in 1640–50; vision + -ary

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Example Sentences

They double down on the plot device of a lone visionary opposed by conventional hierarchies.

They were jeered for their efforts, but today they look visionary.

Yet, the ever-visionary Van Gogh still feels the possibility of acclaim after his imminent death.

Ken Russell, the now sadly deceased British film director, told me he considered Jarman a visionary.

I wanted to talk about your career as well, since you were honored here with the Persol Tribute to Visionary Talent Award.

The prophets had long been painting the visionary dawn with pigments of that glorious sunset.

The danger which seemed so terrible to many honest friends of liberty he did not venture to pronounce altogether visionary.

This visionary was in reality a philosopher, that is to say, an experimenter and a manipulator of general ideas.

It is important, first of all, to note that this power of the visionary could not be put directly into play.

The man who brought these calamities on his country was not a mere visionary or a mere swindler.

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