visionary

/'viʤnəri/

Thân thiện

A visionary leader points toward a bright future on a large map.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Impractical or unrealizable; speculative: Describes ideas, plans, or theories that are imaginative but not grounded in practical reality or current possibility.
   • Having clear, original, or prophetic ideas about the future: Describes a person or their thinking that is characterized by foresight and the ability to imagine future developments.

2. Noun:

   • A person with unusual powers of foresight: An individual who can anticipate or imagine future trends, technologies, or societal changes.
   • A person given to fanciful speculations: An individual who indulges in imaginative but often impractical ideas with little regard for what is currently achievable.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • His plan for a city on Mars was dismissed as a visionary scheme.
  • She is known for her visionary leadership in the tech industry.
• Noun:
  • The inventor was considered a visionary for predicting the rise of personal computers.
  • He was a dreamer and a visionary, often lost in his own impractical ideas.

Advanced Usage

• "Visionary thinking": Refers to the process of conceiving bold, future-oriented ideas.
  • The company's success is built on a culture of visionary thinking.
• "Visionary zeal": Describes an intense, often impractical, enthusiasm for an idealistic concept.
  • He pursued the project with a visionary zeal that ignored all budgetary constraints.

Variants and Related Words

• Vision (n): The ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom; a mental image of what the future could be.
  • The CEO articulated a clear vision for the company's next decade.
• Envision (v): To imagine as a future possibility; visualize.
  • She envisioned a world powered entirely by renewable energy.

Synonyms

• Adjective (impractical): Utopian, quixotic, idealistic, airy, fanciful.
• Adjective (foresighted): Prophetic, prescient, far-seeing, forward-looking.
• Noun (foresighted person): Prophet, seer, futurist, innovator.
• Noun (dreamer): Idealist, daydreamer, romantic.

Related Phrases

• A visionary leader: A leader who inspires others with a compelling picture of the future.
  • The country needed a visionary leader to guide it through the crisis.
• Visionary art: Art that purports to transcend the physical world and depict a broader spiritual or mystical vision.
  • The gallery specializes in visionary art from the 20th century.

Related Idioms

• Have a vision: To have a clear idea or goal for the future.
  • To be successful, you must have a vision and work towards it.
• Castles in the air: Daydreams or plans that are fanciful and have little chance of realization (similar to the impractical aspect of 'visionary').
  • His business plan was nothing but castles in the air.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. not practical or realizable; speculative
   • airy theories about socioeconomic improvement
   • visionary schemes for getting rich

Noun

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• airy
• impractical
• Laputan
• windy
• illusionist
• seer