单词 | visionary |
释义 | vi·sion·ary I. 1. a. < a visionary prophet > < people call you visionary … you see things before they happen — S.M.Crothers > b. < 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. < beheld … through so dim a medium that she looked visionary — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < clutched at some visionary object in the air — Thomas DeQuincey > b. < a visionary scheme > < discussions of monorail systems seemed academic, if not visionary — Fortune > c. < those who hazard a real blessing for some visionary good — Encore > 3. < 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. 1. < too clever to place any faith in the dreams of visionaries … knew all the priestcraft and fakery of his kind — Bruce Nelson > 2. < ridiculed as a visionary when he first proposed the plan > < realized what a hopeless visionary he was — Cosmopolitan > III. < a visionary leader > < a visionary invention > |
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