visionary
/'viʤnəri/
Definition
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.
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.
Adjective
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not practical or realizable; speculative
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airy theories about socioeconomic improvement
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visionary schemes for getting rich
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Noun
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a person with unusual powers of foresight
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a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
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