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Visionary vs Forethoughtful - What's the difference?

visionary | forethoughtful |

As adjectives the difference between visionary and forethoughtful

is that visionary is having vision or foresight while forethoughtful is having or full of forethought; provident; proactive; visionary.

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

    • forethoughtful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having or full of forethought; provident; proactive; visionary.
  • * 1827 , , Religious Characteristics , William Blackwood (Edinburgh), p. 290 (Google preview):
    • But we live in an age of the world when a spirit is abroad which is more than directly and blessedly influential on the present,— which is forethoughtful and prospective, casting its relations like strong grappling-irons over the future, and claiming its issues.
  • * 1913 , , Gold , ch. 3:
    • Meal times always caught the majority unaware. They tumbled and jostled down the companionways only to find the wise and forethoughtful had preëmpted every chair.
  • * 2006 , , BSI Starside: The Cause of Death , ISBN 9780553901382, p. 225 (Google preview):
    • And I should have been forethoughtful enough to see the looming danger.

    Derived terms

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