Do you consider it a compliment or an insult to be called a visionary? Why?

Question

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/visionary

Answer 1

I would think it is a compliment, but then, if I was, I would probably be burned at some religions' stake for some reason or another, so I would not reddily accept the compliment!

Answer 2

Not that I've ever been called a visionary, but it would certainly be a compliment, not an insult. Perhaps if someone was called a dreamer or a rebel there may be a negative connotation, but a visionary, one who sees into the future, is something positive.

Answer 3

I call myself visionary all the time.
It's my defense for the accusation of insanity; that follows when I have said things that seem senseless.
Of course, I mean visionary in the genius/shamanic sense.

Answer 4

Neither!
If you accept it as a compliment it feeds the ego.
If you accept it as an insult it hurts the ego.
A true visionary does not need either.

Answer 5

i don't think it has negative conotations attached to it. its definitely a compliment. visionary is someone who can see in future and describe the problems to come later in present.

Good luck

Answer 6

The only way I would consider it an insult is if I were the type of person to always talk about things I dream of doing (pipe dreams) and goals I want to accomplish and never getting them done.

Answer 7

A compliment! If someone feels my mind is so expansive as to create ideas for the future, (or to have created ideas in the past that have now come to fruition) I would be very proud to know someone thinks of me in this manner.

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visionary