visionary

adjective

1. given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable, or unpractical ideas, views, or schemes: a visionary enthusiast.
2. given to or concerned with seeing visions.
3. belonging to or seen in a vision.
4. unreal; imaginary: visionary evils.
5. purely idealistic or speculative; impractical; unrealizable: a visionary scheme.
6. of, relating to, or proper to a vision.

noun, plural vi·sion·ar·ies.

7. a person of unusually keen foresight.
8. a person who sees visions.
9. a person who is given to audacious, highly speculative, or impractical ideas or schemes; dreamer.

adjective

1. marked by vision or foresighta visionary leader
2. incapable of being realized or effected; unrealistic
3. (of people) characterized by idealistic or radical ideas, esp impractical ones
4. given to having visions
5. of, of the nature of, or seen in visions

noun plural -aries

6. a visionary person

adj.

“able to see visions,” 1650s, from vision + -ary. Meaning “impractical” is attested from 1727. The noun is attested from 1702, from the adj., originally “one who indulges in impractical fantasies.”