true visionary
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6.8
- noun
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verdadero visionario
- Wynns Coonawarra Estate was founded by Scottish pioneer John Riddoch, who, as a true visionary, planted vineyards in 1891.
Examples
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Many consider Elon Musk a true visionary for his ideas about space travel and renewable energy.
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He was a true visionary, artist, innovator, inventor, businessman, and, above all, one who really cared about producing great products, with a first-rate "user experience."
Blog text (8) -
Your father was the true visionary, not me.
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I do find it sad that we lost a true visionary of our times.
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...a true visionary, and such a splendid example to the youth.
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I think he's a true visionary.
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He was a true visionary at a time when Native Americans needed solid leadership.
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The organizations that founded the first old-age homes in America were true visionaries in that sense; they looked to their communities' most urgent needs and set out to meet them.
Academic text (1995) -
They were true visionaries, and their faith in you desiring enduring freedom made them initiate their actions.
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Steve Jobs was a true visionary who imagined a future where technology is seamlessly integrated into our daily lives.
Synonyms
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6.3
A person who imagines new ideas and plans for the future
Antonyms
How Visionary
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'true' functions as an intensifier meaning genuine/real and 'visionary' denotes a person with foresight, so together they mean a genuinely visionary person. This intensifying pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
True visionary comes from the word vision and the idea of a visionary as someone who can 'see the future' in their mind. So calling someone a true visionary means they really have that rare ability to imagine what will come and to plan for it.