Antonyms for visionaries
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : vizh-uh-ner-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɪʒ əˌnɛr i |
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for visionaries
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