Synonyms for visionary
- adjective
- noun
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
utopian, imaginative, airy, quixotic, fantastical, fanciful, dreamy, chimerical, romantic, fantastic, shadowy, imaginary, illusive, ideal, unreal, impractical, illusory, spectral, windy, notional, unpractical rare, unsubstantial dated
Noun
1. Illusionist
2. Dreamer
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having vision or foresight.
- n. 1
Someone who has visions; a seer.
- n. 2
An impractical dreamer.
Forms
- Plural
- visionaries → illusionists, see-ers, dreamers, zealots…
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A fanciful theory or suggestion may be clearly recognized as such; a visionary scheme is erroneously supposed to have a basis in fact.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- imaginative I struggle to understand their imaginative worlds.
- utopian To live in a perfect world is just a utopian dream.
- fantastical Rowan loves building miniature figurines of fantastical creatures and machines.
- quixotic It's true. Books really do have a Quixotic spell.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| visionary | rising | |
| imaginative | falling | |
| utopian | rising | |
| fantastical | rising | |
| quixotic | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- airy2
- 5 letters
- ideal2, windy2
- 6 letters
- unreal2, dreamy2, zealot2
- 7 letters
- dreamer2, shadowy3, fanatic3, utopian4
- 8 letters
- romantic3, spectral2, fanciful3, illusory4, notional3, quixotic3, illusive3
- 9 letters
- fantastic3, imaginary5
- 10 letters
- enthusiast4, chimerical4
- 11 letters
- imaginative5, impractical4, fantastical, illusionist4, unpractical
- 13 letters
- unsubstantial
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (airy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- visionnaire
- Italiano
- visionario
- Deutsch
- Visionär