intellectual vs visionary

visionary vs intellectual

intellectual and visionary both are nouns.

intellectual and visionary both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
intellectual	Yes	Yes	No	No
visionary	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, visionary is a hyponym of intellectual; that is, visionary is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than intellectual:

intellectual: a person who uses the mind creatively
visionary: a person with unusual powers of foresight

Other hyponyms of intellectual include anomalist, exponent, alchemist, aphorist, bel esprit, clever clogs, clever Dick, decipherer, decoder, egghead, expositor, expounder, brain, brainiac, Einstein, genius, mastermind, highbrow, mentor, wise man, bookman, scholar, scholarly person, doubter, sceptic, skeptic, specifier, subjectivist, synthesiser, synthesist, synthesizer, idealogue, theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer, creative thinker, mind, thinker, thinker, illusionist, seer, wonderer.

intellectual (noun)	visionary (noun)
a person who uses the mind creatively	a person with unusual powers of foresight
	a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible

intellectual (adjective)	visionary (adjective)
appealing to or using the intellect	not practical or realizable; speculative
involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

Difference between intellectual and visionary

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