visionary
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7.4
- adjective
- /ˈvɪʒənˌɛri/
:
utópico
- Many critics describe his proposal for a city-wide transportation system as a visionary plan that may never be realized.
- a visionary solution
to accomplish the policy portions of that visionary statement. So the SEC Defence takes,
- to accomplish the policy portions of that visionary statement. So the SEC Defence takes,
- First of all, your purpose must be practical and not visionary.
- But so this visionary dreaming insinuates into different things something that it shouldn't.
Examples
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You have to understand, the more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.
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And as people start to, you know, respond to his message, he develops this following, which just gets bigger and bigger until he's this huge visionary leader.
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I would go so far as to describe him as a visionary man.
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This room is full of the smartest and most visionary people in the world.
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In our department's case, it was the hiring of a visionary high school principal, Mr. Robert Albano.
Academic text (2008) -
Achieving progress toward this ambitious goal requires investments in visionary longer-term research.
Academic text (2013) -
Accomplished library media specialists provide consistent and visionary instructional leadership.
Academic text (2015) -
The new style of leadership is visionary and is characterized by creativity, forceful, focused, inclusive behavior.
Academic text (1999) -
Indeed, both presidents' extensive lists of policy specifics often overshadow the visionary aspirations of their addresses.
Academic text (1997) -
" Rabbi Alvin Sugarman, a prominent Jewish leader in Atlanta, praised the "visionary legislators" who supported the bill.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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3.7
Having many new and different ideas
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5.3
Not sensible or likely to work in real life
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4.8
Seeming ahead of its time because of very new design or ideas
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7.9
Having ideas about a perfect world that are impossible to make real
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6.9
Ideas and plans that are not realistic
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8.0
Having very extreme ideas or plans that are unlikely to work
Full of very unrealistic ideas that cannot work in real life
Antonyms
Compounds
How Visionary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Visionary as an adjective links back to vision, 'to see', meaning the idea is something 'seen' in the mind; that is why a visionary plan feels imaginative but may not be practical to make real.