visionary

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈvɪʒn̩(ə)ɹi/    美 /ˈvɪʒəˌnɛɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 dismissing him as a foolish enthusiast.
  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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having vision or foresight.
    — No more theſe ſeenes my meditation aid, / Or lull to reſt the viſionary mind.
  2. Imaginary or illusory.
    — 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— […]
  3. Prophetic or revelatory.
    — 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[…]
  4. Idealistic or utopian.
    — a visionary scheme or project

词形变化

more visionary comparative most visionary superlative visionaries plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English vision
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
Middle English -arie
English -ary
English visionary
From vision + -ary.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English vision
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
Middle English -arie
English -ary
English visionary
From vision + -ary.
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