Visionary vs Fantastic - What's the difference?
visionary | fantastic | Synonyms |
having vision or foresight
* Alexander Pope
imaginary or illusory
prophetic or revelatory
* Thomson
idealistic or utopian
someone who has visions; a seer
an impractical dreamer
someone who has positive ideas about the future
Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
* T. Gray
Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier ).
As adjectives the difference between visionary and fantastic
is that visionary is having vision or foresight while fantastic is existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.As a noun visionary
is someone who has visions; a seer.visionary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Or lull to rest the visionary maid.
- The visionary hour / When musing midnight reigns.
- a visionary scheme or project
- (Jonathan Swift)
Noun
(visionaries)fantastic
English
Alternative forms
* fantastick (obsolete) * (l) * (l) (obsolete) * phantastique (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.
- His fantastic post-college plans had all collapsed within a year of graduation.
- She had a fantastic view of her own importance that none of her colleagues shared.
- The events were so fantastic that only the tabloids were willing to print them.
- She entered the lab and stood gaping for a good ten minutes at the fantastic machinery at work all around her.
- There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, / That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.
- "I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!"