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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | idealized, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, ambitious, astral, chimerical, daydreaming, delusory, dreaming, dreamy, exalted, fanciful, fantastic, grandiose, ideal, idealist, idealistic, illusory, imaginary, impractical, in the clouds, introspective, lofty, musing, noble, otherworldly, pretentious, prophetic, quixotic, radical, speculative, starry-eyed, unreal, unrealistic, unworkable, unworldly, utopian |
| Antonyms: | practical, real, realistic, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | airy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicate or ethereal |
| Synonyms: | dainty, diaphanous, flimsy, fragile, frail, frivolous, illusory, imaginary, immaterial, intangible, light, rare, rarefied, tenuous, thin, vaporous, visionary, volatile, weightless, wispy |
| Antonyms: | heavy |
| Main Entry: | ambitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | requiring great effort, ability |
| Synonyms: | arduous, bold, challenging, demanding, difficult, elaborate, energetic, exacting, formidable, grandiose, hard, impressive, industrious, lofty, pretentious, severe, strenuous, visionary |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile |
| Main Entry: | clairvoyant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intuitive, psychic |
| Synonyms: | clear-sighted, discerning, extrasensory, far-sighted, farseeing, fey, judicious, long-sighted, new age, oracular, penetrating, perceptive, prescient, prophetic, second-sighted, sibylline, spiritualistic, telepathic, vatic, visionary |
| Main Entry: | clairvoyant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is psychic |
| Synonyms: | augur, channeller, diviner, fortune-teller, haruspex, horoscopist, medium, oracle, palm reader, prophet, seer, sibyl, soothsayer, telepath, telepathist, visionary, voodoo doctor |
| Main Entry: | creative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artistic, imaginative |
| Synonyms: | clever, cool*, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, formative, gifted, hip*, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, inventive, leading-edge, original, originative, productive, prolific, stimulating, visionary, way out |
| Antonyms: | uncreative, ungifted, unimaginative, uninspired, unproductive, untalented |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, beguiling, chimerical, deceiving, deluding, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, ostensible, quixotic, seeming, specious, spurious, visionary |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, factual, honest, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, introvertive, lulling, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, preoccupied, quixotic, relaxing, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | fanatic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person overenthusiastic about an interest |
| Synonyms: | activist, addict, bigot, bug*, crank, crazy, demon, devotee, enthusiast, extremist, fiend*, fool, freak, maniac, militant, monomaniac, nut*, radical, ultraist, visionary, zealot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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