Prefigurative

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prefigurative \Pre*fig"ur*a*tive\, a.
     Showing by prefiguration. "The prefigurative atonement."
     --Bp. Horne.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  prefigurative
       adj : indistinctly prophetic [syn: {adumbrative}, {foreshadowing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "prefigurative":
     apocalyptic, augural, auguring, divinatory, fatidic, forecasting,
     forerunning, foreseeing, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretelling,
     foretokening, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical,
     heavy with meaning, indicative, intuitive, mantic, meaningful,
     monitory, oracular, precursive, precursory, predictional,
     predictive, predictory, prefiguring, preindicative, premonitory,
     presageful, presaging, presignificative, presignifying, prognostic,
     prognosticative, prophetic, sibyllic, sibylline, significant,
     vaticinal, vaticinatory, warning, weather-wise