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visionary

Syllabification: (vi·sion·ar·y)
Pronunciation: /ˈviZHəˌnerē/

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Definition of visionary

adjective

  • 1(especially of a person) thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom:a visionary leader
  • archaic (of a scheme or idea) not practical.
  • 2of, relating to, or able to see visions in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition:a visionary experience
  • archaic existing only in a vision or in the imagination.

noun (plural visionaries)

  • a person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like.

Derivatives

visionariness

noun
Remember that visionary ends with -ary.

visionary in other Oxford dictionaries

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