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 [ˈvɪʒənərɪ]

adj

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

n pl -aries

a visionary person

visionariness  n

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

noun

1. idealist, romantic, dreamer, daydreamer, utopian, enthusiast (archaic), theorist, zealot, Don Quixote Visionaries see the world not as it is but as it could be.
idealist cynic, realist, pragmatist, pessimist

2. prophet, diviner, mystic, seer, soothsayer, sibyl, scryer, spaewife (Scot.) shamans, mystics and religious visionaries

adjective

1. idealistic, romantic, unrealistic, utopian, dreaming, speculative, impractical, dreamy, unworkable, quixotic, starry-eyed, with your head in the clouds His ideas were dismissed as mere visionary speculation.
idealistic realistic, pragmatic

2. prophetic, mystical, divinatory, predictive, oracular, sibylline, mantic, vatic (rare), fatidic (rare) visionary experiences and contact with spirit beings

3. imaginary, fantastic, unreal, fanciful, ideal, idealized, illusory, imaginal (Psychoanal.), chimerical, delusory the visionary worlds created by fantasy writers
imaginary real, actual, mundane, unimaginary

Translations

visionary [ˈvɪʒənərɪ]

A. N

1. (= original thinker) → visionario/a m/f

2. (= dreamer) → soñador(a) m/f

B. ADJ

1. (= farsighted) [person, plan] → con visión de futuro, visionario

2. (= impractical) [idea, plan] → utópico, quimérico

3. (= idealistic) [person] → idealista

4. (= religious, supernatural) [experience] → sobrenatural

visionary [ˈvɪʒənəri] n → visionnaire mf

visionary

adj

(= impractical) → unrealistisch; (= of visions) → vorhersehend, visionär (geh); (= unreal) → eingebildet

(= with a vision) idea, book, writer, artist → visionär

n → Visionär(in) m(f), → Seher(in) m(f) (geh); (pej) → Fantast(in) m(f), → Phantast(in) m(f)

visionary [ˈvɪʒ/ən/ərɪ]

1. n → visionario/a

2. adj → lungimirante; (dreamlike) → irreale