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visionary
Synonyms and Antonyms of visionary
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having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
dewy-eyed, moonstruck, moony, sentimental, tender-minded
hopeful, optimistic, Pollyannaish (also Pollyannish), rosy, upbeat
doctrinaire, ideological (also ideologic)
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not real and existing only in the imagination
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
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having or showing awareness of and preparation for the future
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
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one who predicts future events or developments
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one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealist, idealizer, ideologue (also idealogue), romantic, romanticist, utopian
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