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Grammar : Noun
Spell : vizh-uh-ner-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɪʒ əˌnɛr i

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Définition of visionaries

Origin :
  • "able to see visions," 1650s, from vision + -ary. Meaning "impractical" is attested from 1727. The noun is attested from 1702, from the adj., originally "one who indulges in impractical fantasies."
  • noun person who dreams, is idealistic
Example sentences :
  • He had been the prey of all sorts of swindlers, adventurers, visionaries and even lunatics.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
  • A businessman's concern is with business; he leaves abstractions to visionaries.
  • Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore
  • In the West, Stanford and his group of California visionaries carried the burden.
  • Extract from : « The New Nation » by Frederic L. Paxson
  • This statement they submit to you is not one of visionaries.
  • Extract from : « The Magnificent Montez » by Horace Wyndham
  • For the present, most of these visionaries are occupied with electricity.
  • Extract from : « The Mark Of Cain » by Andrew Lang
  • Other poets for the most part are visionaries;305 Jonson is all but a logician.
  • Extract from : « The World's Greatest Books -- Vol XX -- Miscellaneous Literature and Index » by Various
  • He is eminently practical, and he harbors a horror for visionaries and their Utopias.
  • Extract from : « Discourses of Keidansky » by Bernard G. Richards
  • That hallucinations appear in this way has been also observed in other visionaries.
  • Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
  • We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
  • Extract from : « Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources » by James Wood
  • If we are visionaries, you will be gentle in removing the illusion.
  • Extract from : « Trevethlan: Volume 1 » by William Davy Watson

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