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"visionary" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often dreamlike (9 letters).
Definitions
not practical or realizable; speculative
Word origin
From vision + -ary.
Used in a sentence
“No more theſe ſeenes my meditation aid, / Or lull to reſt the viſionary mind.”
“I wrapp’d myself in grandeur then, And donn’d a visionary crown— Yet it was not that Fantasy Had thrown her mantle over me— But that, among the rabble—men, Lion ambition is chain’d down— […]”
“To many, the visionary hope which is born of the imagination may seem the very mockery of nothing. We cannot imagine what we have never experienced.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Future-minded dreamer”9 letters
02“Ahead-of-time thinker”9 letters
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