visionary
/ˈvɪʒəˌnɛɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Prophetic or revelatory.
adj
Idealistic or utopian.
noun
An impractical dreamer.
Example Sentences
- "No more theſe ſeenes my meditation aid, / Or lull to reſt the viſionary mind."
- "I wrapp’d myself in grandeur then, And donn’d a visionary crown— Yet it was not that Fantasy Had thrown her mantle over me— But that, among the rabble—men, Lion ambition is chain’d down— […]"
- "To many, the visionary hope which is born of the imagination may seem the very mockery of nothing. We cannot imagine what we have never experienced."
- "Here Mr. Jackson smiled once more upon the company; and, applying his left thumb to the tip of his nose, worked a visionary coffee-mill with his right hand, thereby performing a very graceful piece of pantomime (then much in vogue, but now, unhappily, almost obsolete) which was familiarly denominated taking a grinder."
- "Here frequent, at the viſionary hour, / When muſing midnight reigns or ſilent noon, / Angelic harps are in full concert heard, / And voiced chaunting from the wood-crown’d hill, / The deepening dale, or inmoſt ſilvan glade[…]"
- "a visionary scheme or project"
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English visioun English vision Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English visionary From vision + -ary.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɪʒəˌnɛɹi/
- British English: /ˈvɪʒn̩(ə)ɹi/