Meanings
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adj
Correctly predicting or seeming to predict what will happen in the future
Her warning about the company's collapse turned out to be prophetic.
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2
adj
Relating to a prophet or prophecy
The ancient prophetic texts described the coming of a great leader.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
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adj
· relating to a prophet or...
prophetical
Word family
Derived forms
antiprophetichistoricopropheticnonpropheticprepropheticpropheticallypropheticismpropheticnesspseudopropheticunprophetic
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French prophétique, from Latin prophēticus, from Ancient Greek προφητικός (prophētikós), equivalent to prophet + -ic.
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