Visionary
['vɪʒ(ə)n(ə)rɪ] or ['vɪʒənɛri]
Definition
(noun.) a person with unusual powers of foresight.
(noun.) a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible.
Typed by Gwendolyn--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.
(a.) Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given to reverie; apt to receive, and act upon, fancies as if they were realities.
(a.) Existing in imagination only; not real; fanciful; imaginary; having no solid foundation; as, visionary prospect; a visionary scheme or project.
(n.) One whose imagination is disturbed; one who sees visions or phantoms.
(n.) One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer.
Edited by Allison
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Imaginative, romantic, given to reverie.[2]. Unreal, fanciful, fancied, ideal, fantastic, imaginary, chimerical, illusory, shadowy, Quixotic, Utopian, wild.
n. Dreamer, FANATIC, enthusiast, zealot, castle-builder.
Checker: Presley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fanciful, dreamy, chimerical, baseless, shadowy, imaginary, unreal, fabulous,romantic
ANT:Actual, real, truthful, sound, substantial, palpable, unromantic, sober,veritable
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Examples
- But there arose no clamour in his breast, only a bitterness that was visionary in itself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But, however, I shall so far do justice to this part of the Academy, as to acknowledge that all of them were not so visionary. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Such reflections appear visionary to the eye of the practical statesman, but they are within the range of possibility to the philosopher. Plato. The Republic.
- I made that wild escape into something visionary, and have slowly found out how wild it was. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She is very vague and visionary. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Will my readers scorn the vanity, that made me attire myself with some care, for the sake of this visionary being? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Our expectations of the future grandeur of America are not so magnificent, and, therefore, not so vain and visionary, as you represent them to be. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Your wishes are not so chimerical; you are no visionary. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When the sisters came to Willey Water, the lake lay all grey and visionary, stretching into the moist, translucent vista of trees and meadow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It boasts that it has ceased to be visionary and has become practical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I left that; it was not mine: it was the visionary bride's who had melted in air. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Forget visionary woe, and think only of real happiness! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But no; that is too visionary. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Take her as the visionary nursling of your own fancy; and she will grow upon you, all the more clearly, as the living woman who dwells in mine. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was as if I had heard a summons from Heaven--as if a visionary messenger, like him of Macedonia, had enounced, Come over and help us! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- No wonder that mankind have been in the habit of calling statesmen of this class pedants, sophisters, doctrinaires, visionaries. Plato. The Republic.
Edited by Joanne