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visionary
Synonyms and Antonyms of visionary
- a visionary plan for a manned flight to Mars even though there are pressing problems right here on earth
dewy-eyed, moonstruck, moony, sentimental, tender-minded
hopeful, optimistic, Pollyannaish (also Pollyannish), rosy, upbeat
doctrinaire, ideological (also ideologic)
- one of several Christian saints who claimed to have had visionary experiences of hell
chimerical (also chimeric), fabulous, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic (also fantastical), fictional, fictitious, ideal, imaginal, imaginary, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, mythical (or mythic), notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, pretend, unreal
- in a visionary move, the developer bought large tracts of the waterfront just before property values skyrocketed
Synonym Discussion of visionary
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- an imaginary desert isle
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- a teller of fanciful stories
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- visionary schemes
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- a fantastic world inhabited by monsters
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- chimerical dreams of future progress
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- a quixotic crusade
visionary
Synonyms and Antonyms of visionary
- according to Greek myth, Cassandra was a visionary who was endowed with the gift of inerrant prophecy but fated to never be believed
- 19th-century visionaries who founded short-lived communities in which everyone was supposed to live in perfect peace and harmony
Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealist, idealizer, ideologue (also idealogue), romantic, romanticist, utopian
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