Definitions for visionary

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visionary vi·sion·ar·y

Spelling: [vizh-uh-ner-ee]

IPA: /ˈvɪʒ əˌnɛr i/

Visionary is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in visionary (aiinorsvy).

Definitions for visionary

noun

1. a person of unusually keen foresight.
2. a person who sees visions.
3. a person who is given to audacious, highly speculative, or impractical ideas or schemes; dreamer.

adjective

1. given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable, or unpractical ideas, views, or schemes:
2. given to or concerned with seeing visions.
3. belonging to or seen in a vision.
4. unreal; imaginary:
5. purely idealistic or speculative; impractical; unrealizable:
6. of, relating to, or proper to a vision.

Origin of visionary

First recorded in 1640-50; vision + -ary

Examples for visionary

It was precisely on the pattern of that worn by the visionary Maid.

I wanted to talk about your career as well, since you were honored here with the Persol Tribute to visionary Talent Award.

I remembered that he had looked to you for the perpetuation of his visionary soul.

Gone were the days of sarcastic ridicule, of visionary politics.

Our visionary scientists have found the Achilles heel of yet another enemy of the State—the Superbug!

There were others who tried to draw him into visionary speculations.

Ken Russell, the now sadly deceased British film director, told me he considered Jarman a visionary.

He cites Jim Collins and Jerry Porras's Built to Last: Successful Habits of visionary Companies.

Dream Cars: Innovative Design, visionary Ideas is on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta until September 7.

He had formerly been ridiculed as a visionary, he was now pitied as a desperado.