| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A person inclined to be imaginative or idealistic but impractical: dreamer, idealist, utopian. See ABILITY, HOPE. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Given to daydreams or reverie: dreamy, moony, woolgathering. See REAL. 2. Not compatible with reality: idealistic, quixotic, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian. See HOPE, REAL. 3. Showing a tendency to envision things in perfect but unrealistic form: idealistic, utopian. See HOPE, REAL. 4. Of, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality: chimeric, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, hallucinatory, illusive, illusory, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic. See REAL. 5. Existing only in the imagination: chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal. See REAL. 6. Of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means: augural, divinitory, fatidic, fatidical, mantic, oracular, prophetic, sibylline, vatic, vatical, vaticinal. See FORESIGHT. 7. Characterized by foresight: farsighted, foresighted, prescient. See FORESIGHT.
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