prophetic
If you make a prediction and it comes true, your words were prophetic. Like the time you warned your dad against eating a whole box of donuts. He got sick, right? That was a prophetic warning.
The adjective prophetic traces all the way back to the Greek word prophētikos, meaning "predicting." You know who's really good at predicting stuff? Prophets. Usually, prophetic is used to describe a thing — like a warning, a feeling, or a complaint — rather than a person.
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foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention“prophetic writings”“prophetic powers”“words that proved prophetic”
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synonyms:
prophetical
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adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative
indistinctly prophetic
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apocalyptic, apocalyptical, revelatory
prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom
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clairvoyant, precognitive, second-sighted
foreseeing the future
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Delphic, oracular
obscurely prophetic
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divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical
resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
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fateful, foreboding, portentous
ominously prophetic
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precursory, premonitory
warning of future misfortune
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predictive, prognostic, prognosticative
of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions
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Antonyms:
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unprophetic
not prophetic; not foreseeing correctly
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nonprognosticative
not offering prognostications
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unpredictive
having no predictive value
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adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative
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Vocabulary lists containing prophetic
This list covers "Phaethon," "Arachne," "A Note from the Author," "Mbombo," and "Raven and the Sources of Light."
In this memoir, poet Margarita Engle recounts her childhood in Cuba and the United States during the Cold War.
This list covers "Phaethon," "Arachne," "A Note from the Author," "Mbombo," and "Raven and the Sources of Light."
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