Synonyms for visionary
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Impractical
ideal, idealistic, ideological, unrealistic, romantic, utopian, quixotic, in the clouds*; see also impractical.
Antonyms practical*, realistic, pragmatical.
Imaginary
not real, chimerical, delusory, dreamy; see fantastic 1, imaginary.
See visionary in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Characterized by foresight:
farsighted, foresighted, prescient. See foresightOf, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality:
chimeric, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, hallucinatory, illusive, illusory, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic. See realExisting only in the imagination:
chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal. See realOf 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 foresightGiven to daydreams or reverie:
dreamy, moony, woolgathering. See realNot compatible with reality:
idealistic, quixotic, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian. See hope, realShowing a tendency to envision things in perfect but unrealistic form:
idealistic, utopian. See hope, real
noun
A person inclined to be imaginative or idealistic but impractical:
dreamer, idealist, utopian. See ability, hope
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