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Someone who has visions; a seer
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An impractical dreamer
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Someone who has positive ideas about the future
adjective
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Having vision or foresight
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Imaginary or illusory
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Prophetic or revelatory
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Idealistic or utopian
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a visionary scheme or project
Examples of visionary in a Sentence
Another visionary American colony, led by a certain Adams, came in 1866.
He was able, active and enlightened, but he was a visionary rather than a man of affairs or sound judgment.
Like the other schiomachists of their epoch, they fought with phantoms in a visionary realm.
Almost at the same date that visionary revival of the Western Empire, which had imposed for six centuries upon the imagination of medieval Europe, hampering Italy and impeding the consolidation of Germany, ceased to reckon among political actualities; while its more robust rival, the Roman Church, seemed likely to sink into the rank of a petty Italian principality.
In Rome there ensued, during the pontificate of Clement, the revolutions of the visionary Cola di Rienzo (q.v.) who restored the old republic, though not for long.
His eagerness to understand the relationship of man to the universe led him to the Kabbala, where these mysteries seemed to be explained, and from these unsubstantial materials he constructed, so far as it can be understood, his visionary philosophy.
He displayed the heroic, epic value of American history, its unity with the great central stream, and dispelled for ever the extravagant conceptions of a sentimental world just emerging from the visionary philosophy of the 18th century.
From 1882 till 1887 his prime minister was Walter Murray Gibson (1823-1888), a singular and romantic genius, a visionary adventurer and a shrewd politician, who had been imprisoned by the Dutch government in Batavia in 1852 on a charge of inciting insurrection in Sumatra, and had arrived at Honolulu in 1861 with the intention of leading a Mormon colony to the East Indies.
Clothed in a visionary body, in the likeness of a man of thirty years old, the Son made his appearance in the fifteenth year of Tiberius, and preached in the synagogue at Capernaum.
The theory was purely democratic, but was all ready to be transformed, by means of a series of fictions and implications, into an imperialist doctrine; and in like manner it contained a visionary plan of reformation which ended, not in the separation of the church from the state, but in the subjection of the church to the state.
It's a brilliant, perhaps even visionary, idea.
Druids Fantasy contains a natural source of D-lysergic acid amide, together with intoxicating herbal extracts, for a truly visionary experience.
The main feature of the visionary design is the oval shape of the covered Forum.
It is useless to make experiments with hysterical and visionary people, "whose word no man relies on"; they may have the hallucinatory experiences, but they would say that they had in any case.
He took a sincere interest in social and political reform, but towards specific "reforms" his attitude was somewhat remote and visionary.
His whole behavior reflected spiritual idealism, with sometimes the postures of a visionary, sometimes the frank outbursts of a child.
On the edge visionary power of and surveilled mickey includes a world.
Is history being rewritten simply so we can confer sainthood on a modern business visionary?
Salvia is a truly unique visionary herb and when treated with respect can reward you and guide you toward greater self-knowledge and harmony.
His visionary voice is potentially stifled by sorrow and grief, and he attempts to contain that dangerous erosion of his prophetic vision.
We need a courageous visionary Government, who are willing to take the lead and set an example.
Actually Winstanley was more of a religious visionary than a political leader.
Gary was a leading visionary with the Highways Agency in developing and promoting the CAT procurement techniques.
To me he is a great American visionary who should not slip through the cracks any more.
We will work to ensure that everyone understands and recognizes the value of the natural environment, is not visionary enough.
Indeed the current developments in community sentencing are a culmination of many years of sometimes visionary, often pragmatic, reforms.
Some people may claim that the proposals are too visionary.
His father was pre-eminent for practical genius, his mother a woman of half-wild blood, weird, visionary and terrible; and Alexander himself is singular among men of action for the imaginative splendours which guided him, and among romantic dreamers for the things he achieved.
But to the Magyars they were the immemorial strongholds of their liberties, the last defences of their constitution; and the attempt to suppress them, which made every county a centre of disaffection and resistance, was the action not of a statesman, but of a visionary.
By this time Burgers was no longer blinded by _the foolish optimism of a visionary who had woven finespun theories of what an ideal republic might be.
Four years later, in 1831, the Introduction a l'histoire universelle showed a very different style, exhibiting no doubt the idiosyncrasy and literary power of the writer to greater advantage, but also displaying the peculiar visionary qualities which made Michelet the most stimulating, but the most untrustworthy (not in facts, which he never consciously falsifies, but in suggestion) of all historians.
It embraces the phenomena of the visionary appearance of lakes in arid deserts, the images of ships and icebergs, frequently seen as if inverted and suspended in the atmosphere in the Polar Regions, the Fata Morgana, and "looming" as witnessed in mists or fogs.
It 's tremendous to have musicians as visionary as you at work in this country.
Certainly both the artist 's crystalline, glacial brushwork and intense ultramarine skies recall the visionary realism of early Flemish painting.
Catching the wave will require visionary leadership in Africa.
No pleasant chat William Blake, beside being a visionary poet, worked also as a commercial artist.
Here, the visionary architect was given total freedom to indulge his unique style.
As a successful and visionary entrepreneur she gave us her top tips for success and these are listed below.
Established in 1983 by its visionary founder, Gilbert de Botton, GAM has been owned by UBS AG since 1999.
Sometimes even just having the rare opportunity to spend time away from the everyday pressures of running a business can catalyze more visionary thinking.
It 's a brilliant, perhaps even visionary, idea.
We hope that the Educators SIG will grow and be visionary in the field of perioperative practice development and practice education.
If you're contemplating a visionary product idea, you often need a sizable investment; more than the typical problem-solving product.
Visionary Supplies has Sheer Vision night driving glasses in metal, plastic and wraparound frame styles.
The show also honors renowned stylists and presents the coveted Visionary Award to the hairstylist voted "most creative."
The Visionary Award was launched in 2004 by Alternative Hair president Anthony Mascolo.
Through this exciting event, hairdressers are invited to submit an image to the Visionary Photo Image Award competition.
It's not just the Visionary Award that allows hairdressers to go all out, though.
Like the old adage says, you tend to get what you pay for, and you can expect to pay at least $250.00 US for each of Syla's visionary swimsuits.
Jean Mantelet was a visionary when it came to appliances and gadgets.