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Another word for visionary

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visionary

modif.

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.

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Another word for visionary

adjective

Characterized by foresight:
farsighted, foresighted, prescient. See foresight
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
Existing only in the imagination:
chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal. See real
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
Given to daydreams or reverie:
dreamy, moony, woolgathering. See real
Not compatible with reality:
idealistic, quixotic, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian. See hope, real
Showing 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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Another visionary American colony, led by a certain Adams, came in 1866.
The four visionary creatures are expressly connected with a storm-wind, and a bright cloud (ver.
Henry IV., the least visionary of kings, was between 1598 and 1610 really hesitating between two great contradictory political schemes:
He was able, active and enlightened, but he was a visionary rather than a man of affairs or sound judgment.
(France), which some historians regard merely as the fantastic idea of a visionary, was probably a scheme of his great minister Sully to avert by a federation the conflict which he probably foresaw would break out sooner or later between Catholic and Protestant Europe, and which, in fact, broke out some fifteen years later in the Thirty Years' War.

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