visionaries

Noun

visionary (plural visionaries)

1. Someone who has visions; a seer.
2. An impractical dreamer.
   • For seven years [Christopher Columbus] begged persistently for aid, but in vain. He was looked upon as a visionary, and the very boys in the street mocked him as a lunatic. At length he was permitted to lay his plans before a committee of learned men, but only to have them ridiculed, the council...1897, Charles Morris, A History of the United States of America: Its People, and Its Institutions, page 18
3. Someone who has creative and positive ideas about the future.
   • Robertson was finally asked to step down at the end of 1961. 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

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