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a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible;or: a person with unusual powers of foresight;
or: not practical or realizable; speculative
- You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- And then Jackie Kennedy takes on the same visionary tone of her husband.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- He looked at me for a moment, and his gaze was distant, visionary; it was the face of someone else.Elie Wiesel -- Night
- There might also be, say, a few visionaries: men above the immediacy of their time who could think historically.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
- Peking looks upon him as a visionary, a great patriot who works slavishly for Mother China, you might say a saint.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- Such a visionary, and so...dead.D.J. Machale -- The Merchant of Death
- He's a visionary, and he had a vision for what Duck Commander could be.Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
- You will now, without fear and with unfeigned pleasure, enter our visionary world.Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
- They were branded, however, as theorists, visionary idealists, purists, talkers of academic nonsense, weepers of crocodile tears.Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
- But of course we visionaries do rather get beaten.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- He had deceived himself with his visionary schemes and "led his family into a state of living which I fear his means will not bear him out."David McCullough -- John Adams
- I made that wild escape into something visionary, and have slowly found out how wild it was.Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
- The first two groups — the Innovators and Early Adopters — are visionaries.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
- So my report was about the threat of Communism, the Chinese Army, how MacArthur was a visionary, that Truman should have listened to him.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- He needed not to be philosopher, or visionary, but simply artificer.Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
- These three visionary characters possessed a mutual knowledge of the missing document.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- But the visionary little maid on her part, beckoned likewise, as if to say—"This is a better place; come thou into the pool."Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- Shaking hands with a visionary middle-aged nobleman.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- Forget visionary woe, and think only of real happiness!Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- But, however, I shall so far do justice to this part of the Academy, as to acknowledge that all of them were not so visionary.Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
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