visionary

visionary
    adj 1: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories
           about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for
           getting rich" [syn: {airy}, {impractical}, {visionary},
           {Laputan}, {windy}]
    n 1: a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms
         with little regard for what is actually possible
    2: a person with unusual powers of foresight [syn: {visionary},
       {illusionist}, {seer}]
    

Visionary \Vi"sion*a*ry\, a. [Cf. F. visionnaire.]
   1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized
      by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.
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            The visionary hour
            When musing midnight reigns.          --Thomson.
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   2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on
      the imagination; given to reverie; apt to receive, and act
      upon, fancies as if they were realities.
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            Or lull to rest the visionary maid.   --Pope.
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   3. Existing in imagination only; not real; fanciful;
      imaginary; having no solid foundation; as, visionary
      prospect; a visionary scheme or project. --Swift.
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   Syn: Fanciful; fantastic; unreal. See {Fanciful}.
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Visionary \Vi"sion*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Visionaries}.
   1. One whose imagination is disturbed; one who sees visions
      or phantoms.
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   2. One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls
      his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds
      castles in the air; a daydreamer.
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visionary
 n.

   1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence
   researcher working on the problem of getting computers to `see' things
   using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information from
   a TV camera to a computer. The problem is, how can the computer be
   programmed to make use of the camera information? See {SMOP},
   {AI-complete}.)

   2. [IBM] One who reads the outside literature. At IBM, apparently,
   such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder.
    

visionary

   1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial
   Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting
   computers to "see" things using TV cameras.  (There isn't any
   problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer.
   The problem is, how can the computer be programmed to make use
   of the camera information?  See {SMOP}, {AI-complete}.)

   2. [IBM] One who reads the outside literature.  At IBM,
   apparently, such a penchant is viewed with awe and wonder.

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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "visionary":
      Barmecidal, Barmecide, Don Quixote, Quixote, Utopian, abstracted,
      addict, airy, apparent, apparitional, astral, autistic, bug,
      chimeric, collector, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, deceptive,
      delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, demon, dereistic,
      dreamer, dreamer of dreams, dreamlike, dreamy, eager beaver,
      energumen, enthusiast, erroneous, escapist, exalted, faddist,
      fallacious, false, fanatic, fanciful, fantast, fantastic, fiend,
      freak, grandiose, great one for, hobbyist, hound, idealist,
      idealistic, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary,
      impractical, in the clouds, infatuate, introspective, lofty,
      lotus-eater, misleading, musing, noble, nut, ostensible,
      otherworldly, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, poetic,
      pretentious, prophet, pursuer, quixotic, radical, rhapsodist,
      romancer, romancing, romantic, romanticist, romanticized, seeming,
      seer, self-deceptive, self-deluding, specious, spectral,
      speculative, starry-eyed, storybook, sucker for, supposititious,
      transcendental, transmundane, unactual, unfounded, unpractical,
      unreal, unrealistic, unsubstantial, unworkable, unworldly, utopian,
      utopianist, utopianizer, wish-fulfilling, wishful thinker,
      zealot