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visionary
[ vizh-uh-ner-ee ]
adjective
- given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable, or unpractical ideas, views, or schemes:
a visionary enthusiast.
Synonyms: impracticable, impractical
Antonyms: practical
- given to or concerned with seeing visions.
- belonging to or seen in a vision.
- unreal; imaginary:
visionary evils.
Synonyms: chimerical, illusory, fancied
- purely idealistic or speculative; impractical; unrealizable:
a visionary scheme.
Synonyms: unrealistic
- of, relating to, or proper to a vision.
noun
- a person of unusually keen foresight.
- a person who sees visions.
- a person who is given to audacious, highly speculative, or impractical ideas or schemes; dreamer.
visionary
/ ˈvɪʒənərɪ /
adjective
- marked by vision or foresight
a visionary leader
- incapable of being realized or effected; unrealistic
- (of people) characterized by idealistic or radical ideas, esp impractical ones
- given to having visions
- of, of the nature of, or seen in visions
noun
- a visionary person
Derived Forms
- ˈvisionariness, noun
Other Words From
- vision·ari·ness noun
- non·vision·ary adjective noun
- un·vision·ary adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of visionary1
Example Sentences
The visionaries, makers and investors building the future and changing the way we move everything around the world.
Because there is a whole sisterhood of women who are ambitious, visionaries, and who recognize the change that we need to see in the world.
Fortune published its latest 40 Under 40 list of the innovators, leaders, and otherwise commendable visionaries this week.
He lacks Edison’s business acumen and penchant for self-promotion, but is armed with a visionary idea and relentless ambition.
When the generations that come after us, our charge is that we will be enough, and be visionary enough, for them to be proud of what we’ve done.
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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