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Definition of visionary in English: visionaryadjective ˈvɪʒ(ə)n(ə)riˈvɪʒəˌnɛri 1Thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom. Example sentencesExamples - Pathology and pills don't offer a very visionary route to such imaginings.
- And that is why this ebullient, energetic and visionary leader suddenly became mute and reclusive.
- Guymun is well-known for her visionary insights and gifted storytelling.
- One expects them to be capable of imagining another, better future - a Utopian moment, a visionary book.
- These two visionary leaders forged an enduring relationship that has weathered many challenges from the Cold War to the terrorism we face today.
- We keep saying that we are visionary world leaders, but our customers, for the most part, aren't buying it.
- Nor was it Neal Stephenson, the visionary science fiction writer who imagined a future transformed by nanotechnology in his 1995 novel The Diamond Age.
- It is not easy to paint a visionary future and also to chart the map that gets you there.
- I would be much more comfortable for there to be an inspiring philosophy led by a visionary leader.
- Clearly the last chapters of Wilde's novel are not visionary glimpses of the future.
- The film is based around Isaac Asimov's visionary stories about future technology where robots are an integral part of our daily lives.
- I marvelled at the imaginative energy of the Martian enterprise, at its visionary and dogged inventiveness.
- The strongest photographs in the show have a mysterious, iconic power that seems to unite a difficult present and a visionary future.
- During the coming months, AMT will presents visionary articles from leaders on the future of the arts and music.
- When I spoke to one of the people behind this project, I was struck by its simplicity and by the visionary future paradigm that it is based on.
- President Lyndon Johnson epitomized the alpha and omega of a leader's visionary determination.
- The awards highlight projects that go beyond technical solutions to consider process, human behavior, and visionary city planning.
- One of its founders, Professor Tony Robards, will explain how York's city leaders took bold and visionary steps to create a shared strategic vision, long before recent government initiatives.
- The too-obvious answer is that clever, creative, visionary people are attracted to either the abstraction of art and literature or the practical innovation of science and technology.
- He hopes to see the gains achieved by the U.S. civil rights movement, and maybe even a vision of ideal universal equality, reflected in the visionary future of the Federation.
Synonyms inspired, imaginative, creative, inventive, insightful, ingenious, enterprising, innovative, perceptive, intuitive, far-sighted, prescient, discerning, penetrating, sharp, shrewd, wise, clever, talented, gifted, resourceful idealistic, idealized, utopian, romantic, quixotic, impractical, unrealistic, unworkable, unfeasible, out of touch with reality, fairy-tale, fanciful, dreamy, ivory-towered, theoretical, hypothetical informal starry-eyed, head-in-the-clouds - 1.1archaic (of a scheme or idea) not practical.
Example sentencesExamples - The book ends with an assault by the mob on Mr Chainmail's 12th-cent. castle, an ironic comment on the more visionary schemes to solve the troubles of the age of reform.
- ‘These hypothetical, visionary schemes will only act to deter tenants from investing in their businesses,’ he said.
2Relating to or having the ability to see visions in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition. Example sentencesExamples - Nor are visionary experiences induced, for example, by hallucinogenic drugs.
- You don't have to be a particularly visionary or imaginative person to allow these tracks to generate the almost-hallucinatory feelings (we presume are) intended.
- For like the visionary nun, Claudia dreams extensively about Jesus' life.
- Both by the solitary nature of her visionary experience and by the ecclesiastical condemnation, Joan was an outsider.
- Somewhere between 432 and 460 a second visionary dream, in which the Irish people beseeched him to return, ignited his missionary zeal.
- The film incorporates graphic dream sequences and visionary effects.
- Legend has it that the very structure of the Forbidden City was conceived in a dream by Yung-lo's tutor, a visionary monk.
- Hiller's art deals with the transcendental and the visionary, with dreams, trances, hallucinations and altered states of consciousness.
- Shortly after this visionary experience, Hurston describes perhaps the most traumatic moment of her childhood, the death of her mother.
- An early visionary experience aroused his faith in the supremacy of the Lotus Stra, and during his career he wrote two commentaries on it, one a general survey of its meaning, the other a line-by-line exegesis.
- Through Helforth, we initially learn that geometric images represent Natalia's quest for visionary states of experience.
- His visionary experience also stands between the mystical and the metaphorical, rather than straightforwardly purporting to be supernatural as in the case of Yeats.
- Do your students have visionary dreams… which I like to call ‘Eddie Van Halen’ dreams?
- Eventually she must have fallen asleep, but all she remembered was her strange visionary dream.
- According to Hamburger, the devotional image develops in order to record and provoke the visionary experience cultivated by the nuns and, to a point, imitated by the laity.
- Though it may seem disheartening to think that this amazing band was greatly a product of a master plan, try to think of it in terms of them being the product of a great idea, or the dreams of a visionary, because that is closer to the truth.
- This card asks you to be a visionary - to dream beyond current limitations.
- His interest in visionary experience, for example, can be traced back to early essays.
- The Angel's trumpet flower produces a narcotic scent used by South American shamans to induce visionary dreams.
- Astrobiology, the search for life's origins and its existence elsewhere in the universe, used to seem like a visionary dream.
- 2.1archaic Existing only in a vision or in the imagination.
nounPlural visionaries ˈvɪʒ(ə)n(ə)riˈvɪʒəˌnɛri A person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like. he is a visionary keen on policy-making Example sentencesExamples - In common with most visionaries he regrets that the rest of humankind has not had the stamina to keep pace with him.
- She's written a book about space tourism, and talked to many of the visionaries behind the whole idea.
- We need more such hands-on visionaries for the future of York if we are to create and maintain a competitive position on the world stage.
- Amongst them were those visionaries who also comprehended the links between science, technology, and economic growth.
- Some science fiction visionaries would have you believe that we're going to live in an apocalyptic future where man is locked in an eternal struggle with the machine.
- If one were to ask ten storage systems visionaries about the future, one would likely receive ten very divergent opinions.
- The website boasts that ‘Freeness is the now, and tomorrow for future music visionaries.’
- It's evident that Hanson is an idealist, albeit one with heavy support from corporate and academic visionaries.
- Instead of visionaries to lead the way, the game has suffered under the guidance of men motivated by self-interest.
- Where are the visionaries who can change things?
- What folks with political ambitions can do is, to start, be open to the Kings and Gandhis and lesser visionaries.
- From be-bop to jazz/rock fusion, he led the way, either by himself or in consort with a handful of other jazz visionaries.
- The council could buy itself whatever future its visionaries saw fit.
- To judge from the number of documents that land on my desk each week concerning politics, urban planning and architecture, this is truly an age of great visionaries.
- One of the visionaries behind the Ropewalk, Richard Hatfield, said he believed the development could breath more life into Barton.
- The artists are the critics of culture and the visionaries that open up possibilities for the future.
- One might wonder if this strikes a blow against grassroots visionaries hoping to overhaul city government.
- They're not exactly visionaries looking to expand the genre.
- As early as 1819, visionaries predicted cities would one day be lit by electricity.
- In fact, it was hardly noticed at first, beyond a few visionaries who invented the form, and started fooling around with it.
Derivatives noun His visionariness, tranquility, consistence and responsibility, his special way of communicating will be cherished in our memory. Example sentencesExamples - But this was not enough for him; he is a visionary painter, and in his visionariness he resembles Dante.
- America experienced a dark conservative revival - people turned cynical, selfish, and misanthropic as visionariness turned to graspingness.
- Better to look elsewhere - for instance, at the tourism sector and the degree of cultural visionariness to be found there.
- The situation calls for novel solutions, insight and visionariness.
Definition of visionary in US English: visionaryadjectiveˈvɪʒəˌnɛriˈviZHəˌnerē 1(especially of a person) thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom. Example sentencesExamples - The too-obvious answer is that clever, creative, visionary people are attracted to either the abstraction of art and literature or the practical innovation of science and technology.
- And that is why this ebullient, energetic and visionary leader suddenly became mute and reclusive.
- Clearly the last chapters of Wilde's novel are not visionary glimpses of the future.
- One of its founders, Professor Tony Robards, will explain how York's city leaders took bold and visionary steps to create a shared strategic vision, long before recent government initiatives.
- It is not easy to paint a visionary future and also to chart the map that gets you there.
- During the coming months, AMT will presents visionary articles from leaders on the future of the arts and music.
- When I spoke to one of the people behind this project, I was struck by its simplicity and by the visionary future paradigm that it is based on.
- The film is based around Isaac Asimov's visionary stories about future technology where robots are an integral part of our daily lives.
- Pathology and pills don't offer a very visionary route to such imaginings.
- We keep saying that we are visionary world leaders, but our customers, for the most part, aren't buying it.
- One expects them to be capable of imagining another, better future - a Utopian moment, a visionary book.
- Guymun is well-known for her visionary insights and gifted storytelling.
- These two visionary leaders forged an enduring relationship that has weathered many challenges from the Cold War to the terrorism we face today.
- Nor was it Neal Stephenson, the visionary science fiction writer who imagined a future transformed by nanotechnology in his 1995 novel The Diamond Age.
- President Lyndon Johnson epitomized the alpha and omega of a leader's visionary determination.
- I marvelled at the imaginative energy of the Martian enterprise, at its visionary and dogged inventiveness.
- The awards highlight projects that go beyond technical solutions to consider process, human behavior, and visionary city planning.
- The strongest photographs in the show have a mysterious, iconic power that seems to unite a difficult present and a visionary future.
- He hopes to see the gains achieved by the U.S. civil rights movement, and maybe even a vision of ideal universal equality, reflected in the visionary future of the Federation.
- I would be much more comfortable for there to be an inspiring philosophy led by a visionary leader.
Synonyms inspired, imaginative, creative, inventive, insightful, ingenious, enterprising, innovative, perceptive, intuitive, far-sighted, prescient, discerning, penetrating, sharp, shrewd, wise, clever, talented, gifted, resourceful - 1.1archaic (of a scheme or idea) not practical.
Example sentencesExamples - The book ends with an assault by the mob on Mr Chainmail's 12th-cent. castle, an ironic comment on the more visionary schemes to solve the troubles of the age of reform.
- ‘These hypothetical, visionary schemes will only act to deter tenants from investing in their businesses,’ he said.
2Relating to or able to see visions in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition. Example sentencesExamples - Though it may seem disheartening to think that this amazing band was greatly a product of a master plan, try to think of it in terms of them being the product of a great idea, or the dreams of a visionary, because that is closer to the truth.
- Astrobiology, the search for life's origins and its existence elsewhere in the universe, used to seem like a visionary dream.
- Do your students have visionary dreams… which I like to call ‘Eddie Van Halen’ dreams?
- You don't have to be a particularly visionary or imaginative person to allow these tracks to generate the almost-hallucinatory feelings (we presume are) intended.
- Nor are visionary experiences induced, for example, by hallucinogenic drugs.
- This card asks you to be a visionary - to dream beyond current limitations.
- For like the visionary nun, Claudia dreams extensively about Jesus' life.
- An early visionary experience aroused his faith in the supremacy of the Lotus Stra, and during his career he wrote two commentaries on it, one a general survey of its meaning, the other a line-by-line exegesis.
- According to Hamburger, the devotional image develops in order to record and provoke the visionary experience cultivated by the nuns and, to a point, imitated by the laity.
- Somewhere between 432 and 460 a second visionary dream, in which the Irish people beseeched him to return, ignited his missionary zeal.
- His interest in visionary experience, for example, can be traced back to early essays.
- Through Helforth, we initially learn that geometric images represent Natalia's quest for visionary states of experience.
- His visionary experience also stands between the mystical and the metaphorical, rather than straightforwardly purporting to be supernatural as in the case of Yeats.
- Legend has it that the very structure of the Forbidden City was conceived in a dream by Yung-lo's tutor, a visionary monk.
- The film incorporates graphic dream sequences and visionary effects.
- Eventually she must have fallen asleep, but all she remembered was her strange visionary dream.
- Hiller's art deals with the transcendental and the visionary, with dreams, trances, hallucinations and altered states of consciousness.
- The Angel's trumpet flower produces a narcotic scent used by South American shamans to induce visionary dreams.
- Shortly after this visionary experience, Hurston describes perhaps the most traumatic moment of her childhood, the death of her mother.
- Both by the solitary nature of her visionary experience and by the ecclesiastical condemnation, Joan was an outsider.
- 2.1archaic Existing only in a vision or in the imagination.
nounˈvɪʒəˌnɛriˈviZHəˌnerē A person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like. Example sentencesExamples - In fact, it was hardly noticed at first, beyond a few visionaries who invented the form, and started fooling around with it.
- If one were to ask ten storage systems visionaries about the future, one would likely receive ten very divergent opinions.
- As early as 1819, visionaries predicted cities would one day be lit by electricity.
- One of the visionaries behind the Ropewalk, Richard Hatfield, said he believed the development could breath more life into Barton.
- She's written a book about space tourism, and talked to many of the visionaries behind the whole idea.
- In common with most visionaries he regrets that the rest of humankind has not had the stamina to keep pace with him.
- The website boasts that ‘Freeness is the now, and tomorrow for future music visionaries.’
- We need more such hands-on visionaries for the future of York if we are to create and maintain a competitive position on the world stage.
- To judge from the number of documents that land on my desk each week concerning politics, urban planning and architecture, this is truly an age of great visionaries.
- Some science fiction visionaries would have you believe that we're going to live in an apocalyptic future where man is locked in an eternal struggle with the machine.
- It's evident that Hanson is an idealist, albeit one with heavy support from corporate and academic visionaries.
- They're not exactly visionaries looking to expand the genre.
- One might wonder if this strikes a blow against grassroots visionaries hoping to overhaul city government.
- From be-bop to jazz/rock fusion, he led the way, either by himself or in consort with a handful of other jazz visionaries.
- Amongst them were those visionaries who also comprehended the links between science, technology, and economic growth.
- Instead of visionaries to lead the way, the game has suffered under the guidance of men motivated by self-interest.
- The council could buy itself whatever future its visionaries saw fit.
- What folks with political ambitions can do is, to start, be open to the Kings and Gandhis and lesser visionaries.
- Where are the visionaries who can change things?
- The artists are the critics of culture and the visionaries that open up possibilities for the future.
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