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1. (adj.) visionary
given to or concerned with seeing visions.
2. visionary
belonging to or seen in a vision.
3. visionary
unreal; imaginary.
4. visionary
purely idealistic or speculative; impractical; not realizable:
a visionary scheme.
5. visionary
given to or characterized by fanciful or impractical ideas or schemes.
6. visionary
of, pertaining to, or proper to a vision.
7. (n.) visionary
a person of unusually keen foresight.
8. visionary
a person who sees visions.
9. visionary
a person who is given to highly speculative or impractical ideas or schemes; dreamer.
Etymology: (1640–50)
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| Definition of 'visionary' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) visionary
a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
2. (adj) visionary, illusionist, seer
a person with unusual powers of foresight
3. (adj) airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy
not practical or realizable; speculative
"airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"
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| Definition of 'visionary' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) visionary
of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions
2. (adj) visionary
affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given to reverie; apt to receive, and act upon, fancies as if they were realities
3. (adj) visionary
existing in imagination only; not real; fanciful; imaginary; having no solid foundation; as, visionary prospect; a visionary scheme or project
4. (noun) visionary
one whose imagination is disturbed; one who sees visions or phantoms
5. (noun) visionary
one whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. visionary
1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence
researcher working on the problem of getting computers to ‘see’
things using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information
from a TV camera to a computer. The problem is, how can the computer be
programmed to make use of the camera information? See
SMOP, AI-complete.) 2. [IBM] One who reads the outside literature. At IBM, apparently,
such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder.
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