visionary

adjective

a visionary leader:

inspired, imaginative, creative, inventive, insightful, ingenious, enterprising, innovative, perceptive, intuitive, far-sighted, prescient, discerning, penetrating, sharp, shrewd, wise, clever, talented, gifted, resourceful;

idealistic, idealized, utopian, romantic, quixotic, impractical, unrealistic, unworkable, unfeasible, out of touch with reality, fairy-tale, fanciful, dreamy, ivory-towered, theoretical, hypothetical;

informal starry-eyed, head-in-the-clouds.

noun

1 a contemporary visionary pictured him in hell:

seer, mystic, oracle, prophet, prophetess, soothsayer, sibyl, augur, diviner, prognosticator, clairvoyant, psychic, crystal gazer;

dreamer;

Scottish spaeman, spaewife;

rare oracler, vaticinator.

2 he was too much of a visionary to run a business effectively:

dreamer, daydreamer, idealist, romantic, romanticist, fantasist, theorist, utopian.

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See quixotic.