| 单词 | prescient |
| 释义 | prescient (presiənt , US preʃ- ) adjective If you say that someone or something was prescient, you mean that they were able to know or predict what was going to happen in the future. [formal] ...'Bob Roberts', an eerily prescient comedy about a populist multimillionaire political candidate. Synonyms: foresighted, psychic, prophetic, divining prescience uncountable noun Over the years he's demonstrated a certain prescience in foreign affairs. Synonyms: foresight, clairvoyance, precognition, second sight Collocations: remarkably prescient He had a reputation as a fiercely intelligent journalist and as a remarkably prescient soothsayer. Times, Sunday Times In fact, they turned out to be remarkably prescient. Times, Sunday Times Many would prove remarkably prescient, others way off the mark. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But the films he introduces are, in many ways, remarkably prescient. Times, Sunday Times Given the term hadn't even been coined when he came up with the concept, it was remarkably prescient. Times, Sunday Times |
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