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Visionary

Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.

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Utopian 84% connected

Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian pro…

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Utopian 84% connected

Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian pro…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Intellect 76% connected

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher form…

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Intellectual 76% connected

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Anticipant 76% connected

Anticipating; expectant; -- with of.

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Anticipator 76% connected

One who anticipates.

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Diviner 76% connected

One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.

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Dreamer 76% connected

One who dreams.

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Fantast 76% connected

One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.

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Forecaster 76% connected

One who forecast.

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Futurist 76% connected

One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.

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Idealist 76% connected

One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.

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Predictor 76% connected

One who predicts; a foreteller.

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Prognosticator 76% connected

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.

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Soothsayer 76% connected

One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

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Laputan 74% connected

Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; prepo…

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Laputan 74% connected

Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; prepo…

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Synonym 6

Airy 92% connected

Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Illusionist 92% connected

One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Impractical 92% connected

Not practical.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Laputan 92% connected

Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; prepo…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Seer 92% connected

Sore; painful.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Windy 92% connected

Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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