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(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 politicalcandidate.
Synonyms: foresighted, psychic, prophetic, divining More Synonyms of prescient
prescience uncountable noun
Over the years he's demonstrated a certain prescience in foreign affairs.
Synonyms: foresight, clairvoyance, precognition, second sight More Synonyms of prescient

Examples of 'prescient' in a sentence
prescient

Will it prove to be prescient move once more?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
That anxiety has not proven to be prescient.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
His ridiculed forecasts for a return to growth this year have proved surprisingly prescient.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He will end up being proved prescient one day.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The poem was composed just a few months before her death and seems eerily prescient.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But the motto is also eerily prescient.
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Little could he know how prescient his comment would be.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But there's something compellingly prescient about their lives.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Would that the public's investments in failing banks had proved as prescient.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Today the 1983 pledge seems prescient.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The move has proved prescient, with many dairy farms having gone out of business during the past two decades thanks to downward pressure on prices.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
(adjective) 
an uncannily prescient prediction
Synonyms
foresighted
psychic
prophetic
This ominous warning soon proved prophetic.
divining
discerning
perceptive
clairvoyant
a fortune-teller who claims to have clairvoyant powers
far-sighted
The decision was described as a far-sighted, significant step.
divinatory
mantic

Additional synonyms

in the sense of clairvoyant
Definition
of or possessing clairvoyance
a fortune-teller who claims to have clairvoyant powers
Synonyms
psychic,
visionary,
prophetic,
prescient,
telepathic,
fey,
second-sighted,
extrasensory,
oracular,
sibylline,
vatic
in the sense of far-sighted
Definition
able to look forward and plan ahead
The decision was described as a far-sighted, significant step.
Synonyms
prudent,
acute,
wise,
cautious,
sage,
shrewd,
discerning,
canny,
provident,
judicious,
prescient,
far-seeing,
politic
in the sense of prophetic
Definition
of the nature of a prophecy
This ominous warning soon proved prophetic.
Synonyms
predictive,
foreshadowing,
presaging,
prescient,
divinatory,
oracular,
sibylline,
prognostic,
mantic,
vatic (rare),
augural,
fatidic (rare)

Nearby words of
prescient

  • prerogative
  • presage
  • prescience
  • prescient
  • prescribe
  • prescript
  • prescription

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