visionary

²visionary

noun

plural visionar·ies

Definition of VISIONARY

1

: one whose ideas or projects are impractical : dreamer

2

: one who sees visions : seer

3

: one having unusual foresight and imagination <a visionary in the computer industry>

Examples of VISIONARY

1. She's a visionary in her field.
2. <according to Greek myth, Cassandra was a visionary who was endowed with the gift of inerrant prophecy but fated to never be believed>

First Known Use of VISIONARY

1702

Related to VISIONARY

Synonyms: augur, diviner, forecaster, foreseer, foreteller, fortune-teller, futurist, prognosticator, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, prophet

Antonyms: hardnose, pragmatist, realist

Related Words: prophetess, sibyl, wisewoman; mystic, oracle; astrologer, crystal gazer, palmist, rhabdomancer; Cassandra, doomsayer, doomsdayer, Jeremiah

Near Antonyms: cynic, defeatist, pessimist; empiric, empiricist

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Other Occult Terms

augury, censor, invocation, lucidity, metempsychosis, mojo, numinous, preternatural, weird, wraith