English > prophetic: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention. |
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| Examples | - "prophetic writings"
- "prophetic powers"
- "words that proved prophetic"
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| Synonym | prophetical |
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| Narrower | Delphic, oracular | obscurely prophetic |
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| adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative | indistinctly prophetic |
| apocalyptic, apocalyptical, revelatory | prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom |
| clairvoyant, precognitive, second-sighted | foreseeing the future |
| divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical | resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
| fateful, foreboding, portentous | ominously prophetic |
| precursory, premonitory | warning of future / future misfortune |
| predictive, prognostic, prognosticative | Of or relating to prediction |
| Opposite | unprophetic | not prophetic |
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| Spanish | profético |
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| Catalan | profètic |
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| Nouns | prophecy | knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) |
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| prophecy | a prediction uttered under divine inspiration |
| prophet | an authoritative person who divines the future |
| prophet | someone who speaks by divine inspiration |
| Adverbs | prophetically | in a prophetic manner |
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