From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishvisionaryvi‧sion‧a‧ry1 /ˈvɪʒənəri $ -neri/ adjective1IMAGINEhaving clear ideas of what the world should be like in the future
Under his visionary leadership, the city prospered.2IMAGINEexisting only in someone’s mind and unlikely to ever exist in the real worldExamples from the Corpusvisionary• Fly away on a visionarycloud.• The visionaryleader is a transformer, cutting through complex problems that leave other strategistsstranded.• He identifies himself either with the visionaryobject or with its witness, the visionary subject.• More visionaryrailwayschemes were got up in the inter-war years.Related topics: Religionvisionaryvisionary2 noun (plural visionaries) [countable]1IMAGINEsomeone who has clear ideas and strong feelings about the way something should be in the future2RRa holy person who has visionsExamples from the Corpusvisionary• Gutzon Borglum was an ambitious man, to his own mind a visionary.• He is not a visionary, unlike those coastalintellectuals.• And a few visionaries are also charting ways to fit the automobile into a more livablelifestyle.• Meanwhile, a few visionaries are assessingprospects for still more extensive computerised information services.• The new centurypresentedchallenges that visionaries thought the old forms could not meet.• Clinton, sweeping smoothly over the recent nastiness, this week presented his friend as the visionary of a new MiddleEast.• Guided by an unlikely visionary named Walt, the artists at Disney did more than create an enduring new art form.
