| 单词 | prophetic |
| 释义 | prophetic (once / 985 pages) adj If you make a prediction and it comes true, your words were prophetic. Like the time you warned your dad against eating a whole box of donuts. He got sick, right? That was a prophetic warning. The adjective prophetic traces all the way back to the Greek word prophētikos, meaning "predicting." You know who's really good at predicting stuff? Prophets. Usually, prophetic is used to describe a thing — like a warning, a feeling, or a complaint — rather than a person. WORD FAMILYprophetic: prophetically, unprophetic+/prophecy: prophecies, prophetical/prophet: prophecy, prophetic/unprophetic: unprophetically USAGE EXAMPLESBut in later prophetic books the divine voice grows quieter. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Michael Gibson, archivist at the Center for Dubuque History at Loras, says the prayer was “prophetic.” Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) On this day full of light, the prophetic proclamation resounds: Time(Dec 25, 2016) adj foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention prophetic writings prophetic powers words that proved prophetic Syn|Ant prophetical adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative indistinctly prophetic apocalyptic, apocalyptical, revelatoryprophetic of devastation or ultimate doom clairvoyant, precognitive, second-sightedforeseeing the future Delphic, oracularobscurely prophetic divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vaticalresembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy fateful, foreboding, portentousominously prophetic precursory, premonitorywarning of future misfortune predictive, prognostic, prognosticativeof or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions unprophetic not prophetic; not foreseeing correctly nonprognosticativenot offering prognostications unpredictivehaving no predictive value |
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