Visionary Meaning
/ˈvɪʒn̩(ə)ɹi/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHaving vision or foresight.
adjImaginary or illusory.
Sentence Examples
Will Apple lose its mojo now that its visionary founder is dead?
Tom is a visionary.
William was a visionary leader who revolutionized the textile industry.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ leader proposed a plan for a flying car, not a practical one.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She is a ____ leader who has introduced several many new and successful ideas to the whole organization this year today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English vision Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English visionary From vision + -ary.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"No more theſe ſeenes my meditation aid, / Or lull to reſt the viſionary mind."
— 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Alexander Pope, page 163:
"I wrapp’d myself in grandeur then,
And donn’d a visionary crown—
Yet it was not that Fantasy
Had thrown her mantle over me—
But that, among the rabble—men,
Lion ambition is chain’d down— […]"
— 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
"To many, the visionary hope which is born of the imagination may seem the very mockery of nothing. We cannot imagine what we have never experienced."
— 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 291:
"Here Mr. Jackson smiled once more upon the company; and, applying his left thumb to the tip of his nose, worked a visionary coffee-mill with his right hand, thereby performing a very graceful piece of pantomime (then much in vogue, but now, unhappily, almost obsolete) which was familiarly denominated taking a grinder."
— 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:
"Here frequent, at the viſionary hour, / When muſing midnight reigns or ſilent noon, / Angelic harps are in full concert heard, / And voiced chaunting from the wood-crown’d hill, / The deepening dale, or inmoſt ſilvan glade[…]"
— 1727, James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Works of James Thomson, page 69:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ leader proposed a plan for a flying car, not a practical one.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She is a ____ leader who has introduced several many new and successful ideas to the whole organization this year today.