Meaning of visionary in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions
  3. Noun
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    visionary

    Definitions

    1. not practical or realizable

    Examples

    • « speculative »
    • « airy theories about socioeconomic improvement »
    • « visionary schemes for getting rich »

    Synonyms

  2. Noun

    visionary

    Definitions

    1. a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
  3. 2. a person with unusual powers of foresight

    Derived terms

Famous quotes

  • « All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. »
    John Ruskin
  • « I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side. »
    Steven Wright
  • « We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. »
    Jay Inslee
  • « Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer. »
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  • « There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. »
    William E. Gladstone

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