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How to pronounce visionary in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms airy, impractical, laputan, windy
Derivation vision


visionary schemes for getting rich.
Type Words
Synonyms illusionist, seer
Type of intellect, intellectual
Has types anticipant, anticipator, diviner, fantast, forecaster, futurist, predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer
Type Words
Type of soul, mortal, person, someone, individual, somebody
Has types dreamer, idealist

Examples of visionary

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Here's a view on clouds from Irving Wladawsky-Berger, visionary emeritus at IBM.
From the businessweek.com
Kip was a vital, dedicated force and visionary in our collective arts community.
From the orlandosentinel.com
We have a visionary mayor and a progressive governor serious about job creation.
From the suntimes.com
Kovacs marks where TV started, and he has never been eclipsed as a TV visionary.
From the dailynews.com
In Weekend, for example, windy politics fray some of the film's visionary power.
From the time.com
He was a visionary who will resonate with this generation that helped Obama win.
From the usatoday.com
Shai Agassi is part scientist, part visionary, with a lot of salesman thrown in.
From the time.com
Mr. Zapatero, 48, is a young Socialist visionary with an old entrenched economy.
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Our heads spin with the visionary ideas you and your task forces are suggesting.
From the denverpost.com
More examples
  • A person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
  • Airy: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"
  • A person with unusual powers of foresight
  • Defined broadly, a visionary, is one who can envision the future. For some groups this can involve the supernatural or drugs.
  • Visionary is a 1976 studio album by guitarist Gordon Giltrap.
  • Hector Chang is a fictional comic book superhero, a member of the superhero team Dynamo 5, which appears in the monthly series of the same name from Image Comics. Created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, Visionary first appeared in Dynamo 5 #1 (January 2007).
  • Visionary is a studio album by German Progressive Rock band Eloy, released on 18 November 2009 through Artist Station Records.
  • (The Visionaries (rock)) The Visionaries is a political hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. The group is notable for focusing on positive issues as well as the diverse ethnic origins of its members. ...
  • Someone who has visions; a seer; an impractical dreamer; someone who has positive ideas about the future; having vision or foresight; imaginary or illusory; prophetic or revelatory; idealistic or utopian