Prophetic

3 definitions found

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

  Prophetic \Pro*phet"ic\, Prophetical \Pro*phet"ic*al\, a. [L.
     propheticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. proph['e]tique.]
     Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events;
     as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of
     before the thing foretold.
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           And fears are oft prophetic of the event. --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prophetic
       adj : foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention;
             "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that
             proved prophetic" [syn: {prophetical}] [ant: {unprophetic}]

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

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "prophetic":
     Biblical, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament,
     apocalyptic, apostolic, augural, auguring, canonical, divinatory,
     evangelic, evangelistic, fatidic, forecasting, foreseeing,
     foretelling, forewarning, fortunetelling, gospel, haruspical,
     inspired, interpretive, mantic, mysterious, mystic, oracular,
     predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring,
     presageful, presaging, prescient, presignificative, presignifying,
     prognostic, prognosticative, revealed, revelational, revelatory,
     scriptural, sibyllic, sibylline, strange, textual, textuary,
     theopneustic, unexplainable, vaticinal, vaticinatory,
     weather-wise