visionary
VIZH-uh-nair-eeadjMeaning thinking about the future with imagination and wisdom
Memory hook VISION-ary: SEES the future. Tia looks at the weedy empty lot and sees what could be: rows of tomatoes and kids picking beans. She is visionary.
The visionary inventor sketched flying machines long before anyone could build one.
In context Most people saw only an empty lot full of weeds, but Tia was visionary: she pictured a garden where the whole neighborhood would grow vegetables, and five years later it was there.
Similar imaginative, farsighted, idealistic, inspired
Opposite shortsighted, unimaginative
From vision, from Latin visio, “a seeing,” from videre, “to see.”