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Visionary
Definitions
- 1 Having vision or foresight.
"No more theſe ſeenes my meditation aid, / Or lull to reſt the viſionary mind."
- 2 Imaginary or illusory.
"I wrapp’d myself in grandeur then, And donn’d a visionary crown— Yet it was not that Fantasy Had thrown her mantle over me— But that, among the rabble—men, Lion ambition is chain’d down— […]"
- 3 Prophetic or revelatory.
"Here frequent, at the viſionary hour, / When muſing midnight reigns or ſilent noon, / Angelic harps are in full concert heard, / And voiced chaunting from the wood-crown’d hill, / The deepening dale, or inmoſt ſilvan glade[…]"
- 4 Idealistic or utopian.
"a visionary scheme or project"
- 1 not practical or realizable; speculative wordnet
- 1 Someone who has visions; a seer.
- 2 a person with unusual powers of foresight wordnet
- 3 An impractical dreamer.
"For seven years [Christopher Columbus] begged persistently for aid, but in vain. He was looked upon as a visionary, and the very boys in the street mocked him as a lunatic. At length he was permitted to lay his plans before a committee of learned men, but only to have them ridiculed, the council dismissing him as a foolish enthusiast."
- 4 a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible wordnet
- 5 Someone who has creative and positive ideas about the future.
"Robertson was finally asked to step down at the end of 1961. His successor would be Dr Beeching, who was seen as both visionary and axeman."
Etymology
From vision + -ary.
From vision + -ary.
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