visionary (redirected from visionaries)

vi·sion·ar·y  (vzh-nr)

adj.

1. Characterized by vision or foresight.

2.

a. Having the nature of fantasies or dreams; illusory.

b. Existing in imagination only; imaginary.

3.

a. Characterized by or given to apparitions, prophecies, or revelations.

b. Given to daydreams or reverie; dreamy.

4.

a. Not practicable or realizable; utopian: visionary schemes for getting rich.

b. Tending to envision things in perfect but unrealistic form; idealistic.

n. pl. vi·sion·ar·ies

1. One who is given to impractical or speculative ideas; a dreamer.

2. One who has visions; a seer.

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vision·ari·ness n.

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visionary

Adjective

1. showing foresight: a visionary statesman

2. idealistic but impractical

3. given to having visions

4. of or like visions

Noun

pl -aries

a visionary person

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	visionary - a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" idealist, dreamer - someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations
	2.	visionary - a person with unusual powers of foresight illusionist, seer intellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creatively anticipant, anticipator - one who anticipates diviner - someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers fantast, futurist - someone who predicts the future forecaster, predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer - someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
Adj.	1.	visionary - not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" airy, impractical, Laputan, windy utopian - characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes"

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visionary

adjective 1. idealistic, romantic, unrealistic, utopian, dreaming, speculative, impractical, dreamy, unworkable, quixotic, starry-eyed, with your head in the clouds << OPPOSITE realistic

adjective 2. prophetic, mystical, divinatory, predictive, oracular, sibylline, mantic, vatic (rare) fatidic (rare)

adjective 3. imaginary, fantastic, unreal, fanciful, ideal, idealized, illusory, imaginal Psychoanalysis chimerical, delusory << OPPOSITE real

noun 4. idealist, romantic, dreamer, daydreamer, utopian, enthusiast (archaic) theorist, zealot, Don Quixote << OPPOSITE realist

noun 5. prophet, diviner, mystic, seer, soothsayer, sibyl, scryer, spaewife Scot.

Translations

visionary [ˈvɪʒənrɪ] n → visionario/a

visionary [ˈvɪʒənrɪ] n → visionnaire m/f

visionary [ˈvɪʒənrɪ] vision adj (with foresight) → vorausblickend

visionary [ˈvɪʒənərɪ] n → visionario/a