VISIONARY
ADJECTIVES
► AERIE ► AERY spiritual, incorporeal, unsubstantial, visionary → 1586
► BABEL lofty, visionary → M17
► LAPUTAN pertaining to Laputa, the flying island in Gulliver’s Travels; hence, visionary, absurd, fanciful, preposterous, ridiculous, impossible → 1866
► QUIXOTIC of a person: resembling Don Quixote; hence, striving with lofty enthusiasm for visionary ideals → 1815
NOUNS
► BABEL a visionary scheme → 1711
► CASTLE IN THE AIR a visionary project or scheme; a daydream, an idle fancy → c1400
► FLEAS IN ONE’S NOSE chimerical notions → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► ABSTRACTION-MONGER one who deals with visionary ideas → 1860
► CASTLE-BUILDER one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer, a visionary schemer → 1711
► CASTLE-HUNTER one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer, a visionary schemer → 1752 obs.
► FANTAST a visionary, a dreamer; a flighty, impulsive person → 1588
► IDEALIST one who conceives, or follows after ideals; sometimes depreciatively, one who cherishes visionary or unpractical notions → 1829
► IDEOLOGIST a person occupied with an idea or ideas, esp. with such as are regarded as unpractical; a speculator; an idealist; a visionary; a mere theorist → 1831
► IDEOLOGUE a person occupied with an idea or ideas, esp. with such as are regarded as unpractical; a speculator; an idealist; a visionary; a mere theorist → 1815
► PHANTAST a visionary, a dreamer; a flighty, impulsive person → 1588
► QUIXOTE an enthusiastic visionary person like Don Quixote, inspired by lofty and chivalrous but false or unrealizable ideals → 1648
VERBS
► QUIXOTIZE to act in a quixotic manner → 1831
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