Visionary Definition

vĭzhə-nĕrē
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adjective
Of, having the nature of, or seen in a vision.
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Having the nature of fantasies or dreams; illusory.
American Heritage
Existing only in the mind; not real; imaginary.
Visionary achievements.
Webster's New World
Not capable of being put into effect; not realistic; impractical.
A visionary scheme.
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Seeing or disposed to see visions.
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noun
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A person whose ideas, plans, etc. are impractical, too idealistic, or fantastic; dreamer.
Webster's New World
A person who sees visions; prophet or seer.
Webster's New World
A person with strong and creative imaginative power and, often, the ability to inspire others.
Webster's New World

Someone who has positive ideas about the future.

Wiktionary

An impractical dreamer.

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Other Word Forms of Visionary

Noun

Singular:
visionary
Plural:
visionaries

Origin of Visionary

  • vision + -ary

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Visionary Sentence Examples

  • Another visionary American colony, led by a certain Adams, came in 1866.

  • He was able, active and enlightened, but he was a visionary rather than a man of affairs or sound judgment.

  • Like the other schiomachists of their epoch, they fought with phantoms in a visionary realm.

  • Almost at the same date that visionary revival of the Western Empire, which had imposed for six centuries upon the imagination of medieval Europe, hampering Italy and impeding the consolidation of Germany, ceased to reckon among political actualities; while its more robust rival, the Roman Church, seemed likely to sink into the rank of a petty Italian principality.

  • In Rome there ensued, during the pontificate of Clement, the revolutions of the visionary Cola di Rienzo (q.v.) who restored the old republic, though not for long.

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Words Starting With

VVIVIS

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YRYARY

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Words Starting With V and Ending With Y

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