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How to use visionary in a sentence

23 example sentences · adjective, noun

Visionary means having vision or foresight. Example: “The entire project was the brainchild of a small group of visionaries.”

Examples of visionary by meaning

adjectiveIdealistic or utopian.

  • a visionary scheme or project

nounAn impractical dreamer.

  • In a military sense Russia is defenceless, and we all supposed it a proof that they were mere visionaries when they started negotiations by insisting upon not surrendering any Russian territory to the Germans.1918 January 3, Bertrand Russell, “The German Peace Offer”, in The Tribunal; republished as Autobiography, 1998, →ISBN, pages 308–9
  • Along with the good planners there are lots of wild-eyed visionaries who don’t relate ideas to real-life practicalities.1968, Engineering News-Record, volume 181, page 112
  • Jefferson’s intellectual prowess led some political opponents to dismiss him as a visionary, but he was remarkably successful in politics.1991, Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., “Jefferson, Thomas”, in Eric Foner, John A. Garraty, editors, The Reader’s Companion to American History...

nounSomeone who has creative and positive ideas about the future.

  • His successor would be Dr Beeching, who was seen as both visionary and axeman.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51

More sentences with visionary

  • The entire project was the brainchild of a small group of visionaries.From the entry brainchild
  • Finally, there’s a Stan Lee fly, in honor of the late Marvel Comics visionary.2020 July 29, Jessie Yeung, “Australia names new species after Deadpool, Thor, and other Marvel favorites”, in CNN. From the entry lee
  • For, stresses Cowart in the conclusion, the genealogist is also a visionary.2013 winter, Christian Moraru, “David Cowart. Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History. […]”, in John N. Duvall, editor, Modern…. From the entry Pynchonian
  • Besson realized his ambition to meld visionary, megabudget Hollywood-style spectacle to French sensibility.2007 May 20, Jaime Wolf, “Le Cinéma du Blockbuster”, in New York Times. From the entry megabudget
  • Helder was also a visionary given to muddled, passionate harangues on immortality, astral projection and other esoterica.2002 May 20, “Luke Helder's Bad Trip”, in Time. From the entry esoterica
  • The clerk vanished, to be replaced a minute later by a tubby Indian with exhausted, visionary eyes.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry tubby
  • But alas for aval ambitions; Sukarno turned out to be a visionary of quite a different sort.1973, Wilfred T. Neill, Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Columbia University Press, published 1973, →ISBN, page 299. From the entry aval
  • The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary utopian ideal.1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104. From the entry utopian
  • The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary Utopian ideal.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The 1964 Campaign”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104. From the entry Great Society
  • To ask what it is that Don Quixote himself believes is to enter the visionary centre of his story.2003 December 13, Harold Bloom, “The knight in the mirror”, in The Guardian. From the entry bathetic
  • We have our share of visionaries, artisans, and wheel reimaginers; we have more than our share of tinkerers and fools.2002, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 47, number 10, page 70. From the entry reimaginer
  • Except for a few ecopoets and visionaries, nearly everyone saw open acreage around San Francisco Bay as prime real estate.1996, California State Coastal Conservancy, California coast and ocean, volumes 12-14. From the entry ecopoet
  • There are no prophecies, no visionaries, no deus ex machinas.1993, Debra Moddelmog, Readers and Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth-century Fiction, page 113. From the entry deus ex machinas
  • The story of simple Bernadette and the Lady of Lourdes, for an example of the readily transmutable quality of visionary rumors, has been re-explained as a UFO visitation.2014, Brian Anse Patrick, Zombology: Zombies and the Decline of the West (and Guns), London: Arktos, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry re-explain
  • He was a visionary whose portrayal of the failure of Eros in a hypereroticized climate addressed the modern world and its discontents in a new, intensely poetic cinematic language.2007 August 1, Stephen Holden, “A Chronicler of Alienated Europeans in a Flimsy New World”, in New York Times. From the entry hypereroticized
  • Biopunks are the visionaries and biotech wizards whose imaginations were set on fire by the knowledge that scientists had finally sequenced the human genome last year.2001 August 8, Annalee Newitz, “Biopunk”, in San Francisco Bay Guardian, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2002. From the entry biopunk
  • In the odic tradition, the poet's visionary authority deriving from God or the muses would invariably be juxtaposed alongside the power of the emperor or empress, and the imperial state.2003, Harsha Ram, The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire, page 54. From the entry odic
  • “We believe that Walt Disney was a visionary person who had certain spiritual revelations of how the world should be, and we’d love to live in the middle of it.”1995 December 10, “Celebration — it’s a small town, after all”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 278, section “Forum”, page 6. From the entry Disneyphilia

Meaning of visionary

  1. adjective Having vision or foresight.
  2. adjective Imaginary or illusory.
  3. adjective Prophetic or revelatory.

Full definition of visionary

Questions about visionary in a sentence

How do you use visionary in a sentence?
Visionary is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The entire project was the brainchild of a small group of visionaries.”
What is a short sentence with visionary?
“a visionary scheme or project”
What does visionary mean?
Visionary means having vision or foresight.

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