Synonyms of visionaries

visionaries

noun

plural of visionary

1

as in diviners

one who predicts future events or developments

according to Greek myth, Cassandra was a visionary who was endowed with the gift of inerrant prophecy but fated to never be believed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• diviners
• prophets
• forecasters
• mystics
• seers
• futurists
• sibyls
• soothsayers
• oracles
• prognosticators
• fortune-tellers
• foretellers
• augurs
• foreseers
• prophetesses
• prophesiers
• astrologers
• doomsayers
• Cassandras
• palmists
• Jeremiahs
• wisewomen
• crystal gazers
• doomsdayers
• rhabdomancers

2

as in dreamers

one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world

19th-century visionaries who founded short-lived communities in which everyone was supposed to live in perfect peace and harmony

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dreamers
• idealists
• romantics
• utopians
• romanticists
• ideologues
• theorists
• Don Quixotes
• idealizers
• optimists
• sentimentalists
• daydreamers
• fantasts
• reformers
• thinkers
• emotionalists
• Pollyannas
• perfectionists
• do-gooders
• fantasizers
• Micawbers
• doctrinaires
• woolgatherers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• realists
• pragmatists
• cynics
• pessimists
• defeatists
• empiricists
• hardnoses
• empirics

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of visionaries

Tech visionaries pledged to create a world that would make possible precisely the kind of self-expression, open exchange, and communal connection that the counterculture had promised. — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2026

And Johnson, as one of the sport’s most respected offensive visionaries, brings a trust factor that generates significant excitement. — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Kids can explore various career paths and hear stories about visionaries from fields aligned with their interests. — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026

Builders, developers and engineers often view ungrounded visionaries with a mixture of exhaustion and frustration, in my experience. — Rohan Pinto, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

The brand has previously collaborated with British designers including Craig Green, Charles Jeffrey and Nicholas Daley, as well as modern menswear visionaries such as Raf Simons and Kris Van Assche. — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 23 July 2026

Today, the media obsesses over the thoughts and fall-outs of AI visionaries like Altman and Amodei. — Michael Muthukrishna, Fortune, 23 July 2026

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a small group of visionaries put their names to a document that changed the world. — Naftali Bennett, Time, 9 July 2026

Brilliant innovators and visionaries like Musk, an immigrant himself, who take on extreme financial and personal risk in the hopes of achieving massive success should be celebrated, not demonized. — Michael Zais, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026