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Visionary vs Fanciful - What's the difference?

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Visionary is a related term of fanciful.


As adjectives the difference between visionary and fanciful

is that visionary is having vision or foresight while fanciful is imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined.

As a noun visionary

is someone who has visions; a seer.

visionary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having vision or foresight
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Or lull to rest the visionary maid.
  • imaginary or illusory
  • prophetic or revelatory
  • * Thomson
    • The visionary hour / When musing midnight reigns.
  • idealistic or utopian
    • a visionary scheme or project
    (Jonathan Swift)

    Noun

    (visionaries)
  • someone who has visions; a seer
  • an impractical dreamer
  • someone who has positive ideas about the future

    • fanciful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fancifull * phanciful * phancifull

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined

    • Derived terms

    * fancifully * fancifulness