VISIONARY
Dictionary entry overview: What does visionary mean?
• VISIONARY (noun)
The noun VISIONARY has 2 senses:
1. a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
2. a person with unusual powers of foresight
Familiarity information: VISIONARY used as a noun is rare.
• VISIONARY (adjective)
The adjective VISIONARY has 1 sense:
1. not practical or realizable; speculative
Familiarity information: VISIONARY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VISIONARY (noun)
Meaning:
A person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("visionary" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visionary"):
dreamer; idealist (someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations)
Meaning:
A person with unusual powers of foresight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
illusionist; seer; visionary
Hypernyms ("visionary" is a kind of...):
intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visionary"):
anticipant; anticipator (one who anticipates)
diviner (someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers)
fantast; futurist (someone who predicts the future)
forecaster; predictor; prognosticator; soothsayer (someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge))
• VISIONARY (adjective)
Meaning:
Not practical or realizable; speculative
Synonyms:
visionary; airy; impractical; Laputan; windy
Context examples:
airy theories about socioeconomic improvement / visionary schemes for getting rich
Similar:
utopian (characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection)
