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fatidical

/fəˈtɪdɪkəl/

fatidical adjective: having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent.

Adjective

fatidical (comparative more fatidical, superlative most fatidical)

  1. Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent.
    • the fatidical oak
    • some Trees , that they are fatidical, these come to foretell, at leastwise to wish you, as the season invites me, a good New-year1655, James Howell, “To Doctor Harvey”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC

Forms of fatidical

comparativemore fatidical
superlativemost fatidical

Origin of fatidical

From Latin fātidicus, from fātum (“fate”) + dīcō (“to say, tell”).

Questions about fatidical

What does fatidical mean?
Fatidical means having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent.
What part of speech is fatidical?
Fatidical is an adjective.
How do you pronounce fatidical?
Fatidical is pronounced /fəˈtɪdɪkəl/.

Words near fatidical in the dictionary

  1. fathoms
  2. fathren
  3. Faths
  4. Fatick
  5. fatidic
  6. fatidical
  7. fatidically
  8. fatiferous
  9. fatig'd
  10. fatigabilities
  11. fatigability

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