Hypertext Webster Gateway: "visionary"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Visionary \Vi"sion*a*ry\, a. [Cf. F. visionnaire.]
1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized
by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Visionary \Vi"sion*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Visionaries}.
1. One whose imagination is disturbed; one who sees visions
or phantoms.
2. One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls
his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds
castles in the air; a daydreamer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
visionary
adj : not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories
about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes
for getting rich" [syn: {airy}, {impractical}]
n : a person with unusual powers of foresight [syn: {illusionist},
{seer}]
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