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visionary

adjective
  1. Characterized by foresight: farsighted, foresighted, prescient. See foresight
  2. Of, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality: chimeric, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, hallucinatory, illusive, illusory, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic. See real
  3. Existing only in the imagination: chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal. See real
  4. Of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means: augural, divinitory, fatidic, fatidical, mantic, oracular, prophetic, sibylline, vatic, vatical, vaticinal. See foresight
  5. Given to daydreams or reverie: dreamy, moony, woolgathering. See real
  6. Not compatible with reality: idealistic, quixotic, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian. See hope, real
  7. Showing a tendency to envision things in perfect but unrealistic form: idealistic, utopian. See hope, real
noun
A person inclined to be imaginative or idealistic but impractical: dreamer, idealist, utopian. See ability, hope

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