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• n  a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
• n  a person with unusual powers of foresight
• s  not practical or realizable; speculative
  visionary schemes for getting rich

• McDonough empathizes with birds because he's a rare one himself, a visionary - half green, half pink - who talks like a communist, thinks like a plutocrat and acts like an ecologist.
• What he has is charisma - the visionary smile and a talent for asceticism.
• But the orderliness of his personal life allowed him to create a surreal, visionary fiction that was often frankly pathological.

• illusionist
• seer
• airy
• impractical
• Laputan
• windy

News & Articles

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• Visionary developer of the Grand Canyon Skywalk, David Jin, succumbs to cancer
  LAS VEGAS, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas businessman, David Jin, visionary and developer of the Grand Canyon Skywalk, passed away peacefully in Los Angeles last night after a four-year battle ...
  June 14, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Wipro Strengthens its Position on the Visionary Axis in the “Leaders” Quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for ...
  BANGALORE, India & EAST BRUNSWICK, N. J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wipro Strengthens its Position on the Visionary Axis in the “Leaders” Quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant
  June 14, 2013 - Business Wire
• Samsung Home Appliances Cooks Up Global Collaboration with Visionary Chefs to Inspire a Home Life, Well-Lived
  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics and home appliances, today announced a global culinary initiative known as Samsung Club des Chefs, which brings together Michelin star-rated and visionary chefs from around the world to collaborate with Samsung to develop the next generation of premium home appliances that will revolutionize what ...
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Irish Times
  He added that the disaster would act as an impetus "to move forward in a bold way in a direction that finally gives us the kind of future-oriented, visionary energy policy that we so vitally need and that has been absent for so long".
• Patrick Moore in Metro
  British astronomer Patrick Moore said: "He was a great visionary, a brilliant science fiction writer and a great forecaster. He foresaw communications satellites, a nationwide network of computers, interplanetary travel - he said there would be a...
• Tommy Lasorda in Forbes
  Mr. O'Malley was a visionary by opening the gates to the West Coast. He linked the entire nation to the game of baseball,Dodgers Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda said. "What a contribution he's made."