visionary

/ˌvɪʒəˈnɛri/

/ˈvɪʒənɛri/

Other forms: visionaries

You've got big ideas. Crazy ideas. But forward-thinking ideas — ideas that just might change the way the world works. You're considered a visionary.

Visionaries are ahead of their time, always thinking creatively. You could say that a visionary can envision what the future holds and come up with solutions that fit that picture. Those wild ideas aren't always met with appreciation though. Skeptics think that visionaries aren't grounded in reality. And usually the visionaries tell them to stop being so shortsighted!

Definitions of visionary

1. noun

   a person with unusual powers of foresight
   synonyms: illusionist, seer

   types:

   anticipant, anticipator

   one who anticipates

   diviner

   someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers

   fantast, futurist

   someone who predicts the future

   forecaster, predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer

   someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)

   astrologer, astrologist

   someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon

   fortune teller, fortuneteller

   a person who foretells your personal future

   geomancer

   one who practices geomancy

   hydromancer

   one who practices hydromancy

   lithomancer

   one who practices lithomancy

   necromancer

   one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead

   oneiromancer

   someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams

   onomancer

   one who practices onomancy

   oracle, prophesier, prophet, seer, vaticinator

   an authoritative person who divines the future

   pyromancer

   one who practices pyromancy

   dowser, rhabdomancer, water witch

   someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water

   type of:

   intellect, intellectual

   a person who uses the mind creatively
2. noun

   a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
   types:

   dreamer, idealist

   someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations

   Don Quixote

   any impractical idealist (after Cervantes' hero)

   romantic

   a soulful or amorous idealist

   type of:

   individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

   a human being
3. adjective

   not practical or realizable; speculative
   “visionary schemes for getting rich”

   synonyms: Laputan, airy, impractical, windy

   utopian

   characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection