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单词 fortune teller
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fortune teller

noun
A person who is supposedly able to predict a person’s future by palmistry, using a crystal ball, or similar methods: he went to a fortune teller to ask for advice...
  • I could have made a mint being a fortune-teller, too - though I already would have known that.
  • Practitioners of the spiritual arts, be they geomancers, mediums, fortune-tellers or soul-callers, have increased in prominence as their formerly proscribed services become eagerly sought-after.
  • Are fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, palm readers, spiritists and voodoo participants in league with demons?

Synonyms

clairvoyant, crystal gazer, psychic, prophet, forecaster of the future, seer, oracle, soothsayer, prognosticator, prophesier, augur, diviner, sibyl;
medium, spiritualist;
telepathist, telepath, mind reader;
palmist, palm reader, chiromancer;
astrologer;
Scottish spaewife, spaeman
rare haruspex, vaticinator, oracler, chirosophist, spiritist, palmister

Derivatives

fortune telling

noun ...
  • Following this logic, it becomes clear that scientists will find nothing if they continue to seek for evidence of the supernatural by examining occult phenomena such as ESP, telepathy, fortune-telling and witchcraft.
  • She said she did not believe in paranormal phenomena, magic, fortune-telling and the idea that everyone has a mission in life.
  • I thought of divination as fortune-telling and psychic development as psychic development.
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