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visionaryadjective having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by realitya visionary plan for a manned flight to Mars even though there are pressing problems right here on earth idealist, idealistic, quixotic, quixotical, romantic, starry, starry-eyed, utopian impractical, unrealisticcrusading, messianic, zealousdewy-eyed, moonstruck, moony, sentimental, tender-mindedhopeful, optimistic, Pollyannaish(also Pollyannish), rosy, upbeatdoctrinaire, ideological(also ideologic) clear-eyed, clear-sighted hardheaded, hard-nosed, tough-minded, unsentimentalpractical, pragmatic(also pragmatical), realistic not real and existing only in the imaginationone 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 fabled, legendary, romanticabstract, hypothetical, theoretical(also theoretic)unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikelyconceived, envisaged, envisioned, pictured, visualizeddaydreamlike, deceptive, delusional, delusive, hallucinatory, illusory, phantasmagoric(or phantasmagorical)concocted, fabricated, feigned, fictiveinexistent, nonexistent actual, existent, existing, real authentic, genuine, truefactual, verifiable, verifiedbelievable, convincing, realisticcorporeal, material, physical, solid, substantialpalpable, tangible having or showing awareness of and preparation for the futurein a visionary move, the developer bought large tracts of the waterfront just before property values skyrocketed farseeing, farsighted, forehanded, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughtful, forward, forward-looking, prescient, proactive, provident careful, cautious, heedfuldiscerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, prudent, sagacious, sage, sapient, wise half-baked, half-cocked, improvident, myopic, shortsighted careless, heedless, incautious visionarynounone who predicts future events or developmentsaccording to Greek myth, Cassandra was a visionary who was endowed with the gift of inerrant prophecy but fated to never be believed augur, diviner, forecaster, foreseer, foreteller, fortune-teller, futurist, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, seer, soothsayer prophetess, sibyl, wisewomanmystic, oracleastrologer, crystal gazer, palmist, rhabdomancerCassandra, doomsayer, doomsdayer, Jeremiah one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world19th-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 emotionalist, sentimentalistdaydreamer, fantasizer, woolgathererMicawber, optimist, Pollyannado-gooder, reformerperfectionistdoctrinaire, theorist, thinker hardnose, pragmatist, realist cynic, defeatist, pessimistempiric, empiricist adj.imaginary, fanciful, visionary, fantastic, chimerical, quixotic mean unreal or unbelievable.imaginary applies to something which is fictitious and purely the product of one's imagination.an imaginary desert isle fanciful suggests the free play of the imagination.a teller of fanciful stories visionary stresses impracticality or incapability of realization.visionary schemes fantastic implies incredibility or strangeness beyond belief.a fantastic world inhabited by monsters chimerical combines the implication of visionary and fantastic.chimerical dreams of future progress quixotic implies a devotion to romantic or chivalrous ideals unrestrained by ordinary prudence and common sense.a quixotic crusade in 1648 |