visionary

(vĭzh'ə-nĕr'ē)
adj.

1. Characterized by vision or foresight.
2. 1. Having the nature of fantasies or dreams; illusory.
   2. Existing in imagination only; imaginary.
3. 1. Characterized by or given to apparitions, prophecies, or revelations.
   2. Given to daydreams or reverie; dreamy.
4. 1. Not practicable or realizable; utopian: visionary schemes for getting rich.
   2. Tending to envision things in perfect but unrealistic form; idealistic.

n., pl., -ies.

1. One who is given to impractical or speculative ideas; a dreamer.
2. One who has visions; a seer.

visionariness vi'sion·ar'i·ness n.

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adjective

1. Characterized by foresight: farsighted, foresighted, prescient. See foresight.
2. Of, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality: chimeric, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, hallucinatory, illusive, illusory, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic. See real/imaginary.
3. Existing only in the imagination: chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal. See real/imaginary.
4. Of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means: augural, divinitory, fatidic, fatidical, mantic, oracular, prophetic, sibylline, vatic, vatical, vaticinal. See foresight.
5. Given to daydreams or reverie: dreamy, moony, woolgathering. See real/imaginary.
6. Not compatible with reality: idealistic, quixotic, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian. See hope/despair, real/imaginary.
7. Showing a tendency to envision things in perfect but unrealistic form: idealistic, utopian. See hope/despair, real/imaginary.

noun

A person inclined to be imaginative or idealistic but impractical: dreamer, idealist, utopian. See ability/inability, hope/despair.

adj

Definition: idealized, romantic
Antonyms: practical, real, realistic, unromantic

n

Definition: person who dreams, is idealistic
Antonyms: realist

1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to ‘see’ things using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer. The problem is, how can the computer be programmed to make use of the camera information? See SMOP, AI-complete.)

2. [IBM] One who reads the outside literature. At IBM, apparently, such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder.

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For a list of words related to visionary, see:

• Respectful or Admiring Reference
• Wise, Mature, or Experienced
• Individuals and Objects - visionary: mystic, prophet, or psychic
• Practice, Discipline, and Belief - visionary: one who sees beyond common experience or perception

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - visionær, synsk, sværmerisk, fantastisk, uigennemførlig, uvirkelig
n. - visionær, sværmer, fantast, drømmer, idealist

Nederlands (Dutch)
ziener, fantast, dromer, denkbeeldig, utopisch, visioenen/visie hebbend, dromerig, met inzicht/ vindingrijk, visionair

Français (French)
adj. - visionnaire
n. - visionnaire

Deutsch (German)
n. - Visionär, Seher
adj. - visionär, unrealistisch, eingebildet

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - οραματιστής, ουτοπιστής
adj. - ουτοπιστής, ονειροπόλος, ουτοπιστικός

Italiano (Italian)
visionario, indovino

Português (Portuguese)
n. - visionário (m)
adj. - visionário

Русский (Russian)
мечтатель, провидец, воображаемый, утопический

Español (Spanish)
adj. - utópico, quimérico, imaginario
n. - visionario, soñador

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - visionär, drömmare
adj. - fantastisk, inbillad, visionär

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
幻影的, 梦想的, 幻想的, 空想家, 好幻想的人, 梦想者

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 幻影的, 夢想的, 幻想的
n. - 空想家, 好幻想的人, 夢想者

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 공상적인, 꿈 같은, 계시적인
n. - 공상가, 환상가, 예언자

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 幻を見る, 見通す力のある, 幻想の, 夢のような
n. - 空想家, 予見的な幻を見る人

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) خيالي, وهمي, كثير الرؤى, حالم (صفه) (شخص) ذو رؤيا بعيدة, غير عملي, مستقبلي, خيالي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮שקוע בהזיות, הזייתי, חולם, דמיוני‬
n. - ‮איש חזון‬

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