Visionary Synonyms and Antonyms

vĭzhə-nĕrē
Characterized by foresight
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. farsighted
  2. foresighted
  3. prescient
Of, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. chimeric
  2. chimerical
  3. delusive
  4. delusory
  5. dreamlike
  6. hallucinatory
  7. illusive
  8. illusory
  9. phantasmagoric
  10. phantasmal
  11. phantasmic
Of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. augural
  2. divinitory
  3. fatidic
  4. fatidical
  5. mantic
  6. oracular
  7. prophetic
  8. sibylline
  9. vatic
  10. vatical
  11. vaticinal
Given to daydreams or reverie
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dreamy
  2. moony
  3. woolgathering
Showing a tendency to envision things in perfect but unrealistic form
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. idealistic
  2. utopian
Antonyms:
  1. unromantic
  2. real
  3. practical
  4. realistic

Words Related to Visionary

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Visionary Sentence Examples

  • Another visionary American colony, led by a certain Adams, came in 1866.

  • He was able, active and enlightened, but he was a visionary rather than a man of affairs or sound judgment.

  • Like the other schiomachists of their epoch, they fought with phantoms in a visionary realm.

  • Almost at the same date that visionary revival of the Western Empire, which had imposed for six centuries upon the imagination of medieval Europe, hampering Italy and impeding the consolidation of Germany, ceased to reckon among political actualities; while its more robust rival, the Roman Church, seemed likely to sink into the rank of a petty Italian principality.

  • In Rome there ensued, during the pontificate of Clement, the revolutions of the visionary Cola di Rienzo (q.v.) who restored the old republic, though not for long.

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