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envisioning, envisaging, dream, idea, plan, scheme: MacKenzie's
vision of making the desert bloom seemed impossibly remote. 4
phantom, apparition, chimera, delusion, hallucination, mirage,
spectre, shade, eidolon, revenant, phantasm, materialization,
illusion, ghost, wraith: A vision appeared to MacKenzie as he
slept, telling him that her name was Alice Springs. 5 sight for
sore eyes, (welcome) sight, dream, epitome: To MacKenzie Alice
was a vision of great beauty, and he proposed marriage.
visionary adj. 1 dreamy, speculative, unpractical, impractical, fanciful,
imaginary, unrealistic, unreal, romantic, idealistic,
unworkable, Utopian: It is a pity that none of MacKenzie's
visionary plans ever came to pass.
--n. 2 dreamer, idealist, romantic, fantast, wishful thinker,
Don Quixote: The world needs more visionaries like MacKenzie.
visit v. 1 (go or come to) see, call (in or on or upon), look in on,
stop in or by, Colloq pop in or by, drop in (on), take in: I
plan to visit Leslie. Did you visit the Smithsonian Institution?
2 afflict, attack, befall, fall upon, assail, seize, smite,
scourge, descend upon, inflict, affect: Horrible diseases and
tortures were said to visit those who denied God.
--n. 3 stay, call, sojourn, stop, stopover: The minister will
be here for only a brief visit.
visitation
n. 1 staying, calling, visiting, sojourning, stopping (over):
The father has visitation rights to his children on weekends. 2
affliction, ordeal, trial, punishment, disaster, catastrophe,
cataclysm, calamity, tragedy, curse, scourge, blight, plague,
pestilence: In the story, the tyrant succumbed finally to a
visitation from the Almighty.
visitor n. caller, guest, company; visitant: May I phone you back
after my visitors have gone?
vital adj. 1 imperative, essential, necessary, needed, requisite,
required, indispensable, mandatory, compulsory, cardinal,
fundamental, basic, critical, crucial, central, pivotal: Air
and water are vital for the existence of most known organisms.
2 important, key, central, critical, crucial, life-and-death or