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单词 visionary
释义 vi·sion·ary
I. \-rē, -ri\ adjective
1.
 a. : capable of seeing visions : disposed or likely to see visions
  < a visionary prophet >
  < people call you visionary … you see things before they happen — S.M.Crothers >
 b. : disposed to indulgence in reverie or fancy : full of imaginative conceptions : apt to accept and act on fancies as if realities : dreamy, impractical
  < one visionary explorer … devoted a season to gold digging — American Guide Series: Massachusetts >
  < visionary and sentimental persons — Willa Cather >
  < visionary in expecting … enough popular support — E.S.Morgan >
2.
 a. : having the nature of a vision : beheld or existing in a vision or dream : illusory, phantom
  < beheld … through so dim a medium that she looked visionary — Nathaniel Hawthorne >
  < clutched at some visionary object in the air — Thomas DeQuincey >
 b. : having no basis or justification in reality : incapable of being realized or achieved : utopian
  < a visionary scheme >
  < discussions of monorail systems seemed academic, if not visionaryFortune >
 c. : existing only in the imagination : unreal
  < those who hazard a real blessing for some visionary good — Encore >
3. : of, relating to, or characterized by vision or by visions
 < able to endow a rapid sketch of some trees seen by a roadside with … visionary power — Stuart Preston >
 < the visionary hour — James Thomson †1748 >
Synonyms: see imaginary
II. noun
(-es)
1. : a person who sees visions : seer
 < too clever to place any faith in the dreams of visionaries … knew all the priestcraft and fakery of his kind — Bruce Nelson >
2. : one that relies or tends to rely on dreams and fancies or on imaginary or ideal conceptions or projects having little basis in reality : an impractical person : dreamer, enthusiast
 < ridiculed as a visionary when he first proposed the plan >
 < realized what a hopeless visionary he was — Cosmopolitan >
III. adjective
: having or marked by foresight and imagination
 < a visionary leader >
 < a visionary invention >
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