visionary
Etymology Pronunciation Adjective
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Etymology Pronunciation Adjective
visionary
- Having vision or foresight.
- Imaginary or illusory.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, page 291 ↗:
- To many, the visionary hope which is born of the imagination may seem the very mockery of nothing. We cannot imagine what we have never experienced.
- Prophetic or revelatory.
- Idealistic or utopian.
- a visionary scheme or project
- French: visionnaire
- German: visionär
- Italian: visionario, lungimirante
- Portuguese: visionário
- Spanish: visionario
- French: illusoire, imaginaire
- German: unwirklich
- Italian: illusorio, immaginario
- Russian: мечта́тельный
- Spanish: ilusorio
- French: prophétique
- German: seherisch, hellseherisch
- Italian: chiaroveggente, veggente, visionario
- Russian: проро́ческий
- Spanish: visionario
visionary (plural visionaries)
- Someone who has visions; a seer.
- An impractical dreamer.
- Someone who has creative and positive ideas about the future.
- French: visionnaire (old)
- German: Visionär, Visionärin
- Italian: visionario, visionaria
- Russian: визионе́р
- Spanish: visionario, visionaria
- French: utopiste
- German: Träumer, Träumerin, Idealist, Idealistin, Fantast, Fantastin, Schwärmer, Schwärmerin
- Italian: visionario, visionaria
- Russian: мечта́тель
- Spanish: visionario, visionaria
- French: visionnaire
- Italian: visionario, visionaria
- Russian: прови́дец
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