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clairvoyant

UK/ˌklɛəˈvɔɪ.ənt//ˌklɛɹˈvɔɪ.ənt/

clairvoyant adjective: of, relating to, or having clairvoyance.

Adjective

clairvoyant (comparative more clairvoyant, superlative most clairvoyant)

  1. Of, relating to, or having clairvoyance.
    • Then there is the very large class of casual clairvoyant visions which have no traceable cause — which are apparently quite meaningless, and have no recognizable relation to any events known to the seer.1899, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Clairvoyance^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Clairvoyance_(Leadbeater)/Chapter_6)
  2. Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.
  3. Able to foresee the future.
    Synonyms:
    psychic
  4. Having great insight; sagacious.
    • …his vision of the future so far-reaching and clairvoyant as that of many who have lived before him and since…1895, John Ames Mitchell (ed.), Aristopi^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Aristopia_(1895).pdf/8)
  5. Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.

Noun

clairvoyant (plural clairvoyants)

  1. A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses
    Synonyms:
    medium, mystic, seer
  2. A person able to foresee the future
    Synonyms:
    fortune teller

clairvoyant meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

clairvoyant in Tamil

புலனாகாவற்றைக் காணும் திறனுடைய

clairvoyant in Bengali

অতীন্দ্রিয় দর্শনক্ষম

clairvoyant in Malayalam

fortune teller, psychic, crystal-gazer
അതീന്ദ്രിയജ്ഞാനി, ദൂരജ്ഞാനി, ദെെവവിത്ത്, ദെെവജ്ഞൻ, ഗോവിത്ത്, പങ്കുംഗിതൻ
psychic, having second sight, having a sixth sense
അതീന്ദ്രിയജ്ഞാനമുള്ള, ദെെവജ്ഞ, നിമിത്തജ്ഞ, ഭാവിസംഭവങ്ങളറിയുന്നതിനു കഴിവുള്ള, മനോഗതമായ, ഇന്ദ്രിയാതീതമായ

clairvoyant in Kannada

ಅತೀಂದ್ರಿಯ ಶಕ್ತಿಯ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ, ಅಸಾಧಾರಣ ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆಯವನು, ಇಂದ್ರಿಯಾತೀತ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಯುಳ್ಳವನು, ಇಂದ್ರಿಯಾತೀತವಾದ, ಅಸಾಧಾರಣ ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆಯ
More languagesFewer languages
clairvoyant in Indonesian
waskita

Synonyms of clairvoyant

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Forms of clairvoyant

Adjective
comparativemore clairvoyant
superlativemost clairvoyant
Noun
pluralclairvoyants

Origin of clairvoyant

From French clairvoyant, from clair (“clear”) + voyant (“seeing”), present participle of voir (“see”).

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Words that rhyme with clairvoyant

Questions about clairvoyant

What does clairvoyant mean?
Clairvoyant means of, relating to, or having clairvoyance.
What is clairvoyant in Tamil?
Clairvoyant in Tamil is புலனாகாவற்றைக் காணும் திறனுடைய. See Clairvoyant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is clairvoyant?
Clairvoyant can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce clairvoyant?
Clairvoyant is pronounced /ˌklɛəˈvɔɪ.ənt/ (UK).

Words near clairvoyant in the dictionary

  1. clairts
  2. clairty
  3. clairvoyance
  4. clairvoyances
  5. clairvoyancy
  6. clairvoyant
  7. clairvoyante
  8. clairvoyantes
  9. clairvoyantly
  10. clairvoyants
  11. clairvoyée

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clairvoyant (page history and authors); clairvoyant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Clairvoyant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clairvoyant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); clairvoyant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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