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| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealized, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, ambitious, astral, chimerical, daydreaming, dreaming, dreamy, exalted, fanciful, fantastic, grandiose, ideal, idealist, idealistic, illusory, imaginary, impractical, introspective, lofty, musing, noble, otherworldly, pretentious, prophetic, quixotic, radical, speculative, starry-eyed*, unreal, unrealistic, unworldly, utopian, delusory, in the clouds, unworkable |
| Antonyms: | practical, real, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | visionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who dreams, is idealistic |
| Synonyms: | dreamer, enthusiast, idealist, mystic, prophet, romantic, seer, stargazer, utopian, zealot, Don Quixote, castle-builder, daydreamer, romancer, theorist |
| Antonyms: | realist |
| Main Entry: | clairvoyant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intuitive, psychic |
| Synonyms: | discerning, far-sighted, fey, judicious, new age*, oracular, penetrating, perceptive, prescient, prophetic, visionary, clear-sighted, extrasensory, farseeing, long-sighted, second-sighted, sibylline, spiritualistic, telepathic, vatic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clairvoyant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is psychic |
| Synonyms: | augur, fortune-teller, medium, oracle, prophet, seer, soothsayer, visionary, channeller, diviner, haruspex, horoscopist, palm reader, sibyl, telepath, telepathist, voodoo doctor |
| Main Entry: | creative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artistic, imaginative |
| Synonyms: | clever, cool*, fertile, formative, gifted, hip*, ingenious, innovative, inspired, inventive, original, productive, prolific, stimulating, visionary, way out, demiurgic, deviceful, innovational, innovatory, leading-edge, originative |
| Antonyms: | unimaginative, uninspired, unproductive, uncreative, ungifted, untalented |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, ostensible, quixotic, seeming, specious, spurious, visionary, beguiling, deceiving, deluding |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, factual, honest, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, preoccupied, quixotic, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical, introvertive, lulling, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, relaxing |
| Antonyms: | horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | fanatic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person overenthusiastic about an interest |
| Synonyms: | addict, bigot, bug*, crank*, crazy, demon, devotee, enthusiast, extremist, fiend*, fool, freak, maniac, militant, nut*, radical, visionary, zealot, activist, monomaniac, ultraist |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fanatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, burning*, contumacious, credulous, devoted, dogmatic, domineering, enthusiastic, erratic, extreme, fervent, feverish, fiery, frenzied, headstrong, immoderate, impassioned, impulsive, incorrigible, infatuated, mad, narrow-minded, obsessed, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, passionate, possessed, prejudiced, rabid, radical, raving, single-minded, stubborn, unruly, violent, visionary, wild, willful, zealous, bugged, high on, monomaniacal, nuts for, obsessive, turned on |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, dispassionate, impartial, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | futuristic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ahead of one's time |
| Synonyms: | advanced, cutting edge, innovative, modern, revolutionary, visionary, pioneering |
| Main Entry: | idealist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who holds fancies in mind, who believes in perfection |
| Synonyms: | dreamer, enthusiast, escapist, optimist, radical, romantic, seer, stargazer, utopian, visionary, Platonist, romancer, romanticist, theorizer, transcendentalist |
| Antonyms: | realist, pragmatist |
| Main Entry: | illusory/illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, sham*, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, blue-sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, real, sure, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up*, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, high-flown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, poetic, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, fictive, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetical |
| Antonyms: | dull, unimaginative, uncreative, uninventive, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impractical/impracticable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrealistic |
| Synonyms: | abstract, absurd, chimerical, idealistic, illogical, impossible, impracticable, improbable, inapplicable, inefficacious, infeasible, inoperable, irrealizable, ivory-tower, no-go, nonfunctional, nonviable, not a prayer, otherworldly, out of the question, quixotic, romantic, speculative, starry-eyed*, theoretical, unattainable, unbusinesslike, unfeasible, unreal, unserviceable, unusable, unwise, unworkable, useless, visionary, wild, won't fly |
| Antonyms: | practicable, practical, probable, realistic, reasonable, tenable, viable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mystic/mystical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, esoteric |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, hidden, imaginary, impenetrable, inscrutable, magic, magical, metaphysical, mysterious, occult, otherworldly, paranormal, preternatural, quixotic, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, unaccountable, visionary, enigmatical, mysterial, necromantic, nonrational, numinous, sorcerous, telestic, thaumaturgic, unknowable, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | knowable, natural, palpable, undisguised |
| Main Entry: | mythical/mythological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe, fairy-tale |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, imaginary, legendary, made-up, nonexistent, pretended, storied, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, created, fabricated, fictive, folkloric, invented, mythic, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | factual, historical, real, true |
| Main Entry: | otherworldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extraterrestrial; psychic |
| Synonyms: | alien, ethereal, heavenly, magical, mystical, out of this world, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, uncanny, unearthly, unworldly, visionary |
| Main Entry: | platonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressing nonphysical love |
| Synonyms: | Utopian, ideal, idealistic, intellectual, quixotic, spiritual, transcendent, visionary |
| Antonyms: | physical |
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