Visionary vs Impracticable - What's the difference?

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Visionary is a related term of impracticable.

As adjectives the difference between visionary and impracticable

is that visionary is having vision or foresight while impracticable is not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.

As nouns the difference between visionary and impracticable

is that visionary is someone who has visions; a seer while impracticable is (obsolete) an unmanageable person.

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

impracticable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.

Of a passage or road: impassable.

(obsolete) Of a person or thing: unmanageable.

* {{quote-book, 1713, , The Fair Penitent citation

, passage=And yet this tough impracticable heart / Is govern'd by a dainty-finger'd girl ;

* {{quote-book, c. 1841, , Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, year_published=1960 citation

, passage=H. is a person of extraordinary health & vigor, of unerring perception, & equal expression; and yet he is impracticable , and does not flow through his pen or (in any of our legitimate aqueducts) through his tongue.}}

Antonyms

* (impossible or difficult in practice) practicable

Derived terms

* impracticability * impracticableness * impracticably

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) An unmanageable person.

* {{quote-book, 1829, Henry Barkley Henderson, The Bengalee, or Sketches of Society and Manners in the East citation

, passage=They were not allowed, of course, to join us in the sitting room, partly that their practice might not be disturbed, but principally, that I was looked upon as an utter impracticable . }}

* {{quote-book, 1867, , Famous Americans of Recent Times citation

, passage=The strict constructionists had dwindled to a few impracticables , headed by John Randolph. }}

* {{quote-book, 1870, , Society and Solitude citation

, passage=Then there are the gladiators, to whom it is always a battle ; 'tis no matter on which side, they fight for victory; then the heady men, the egotists, the monotones, the steriles, and the impracticables .}}