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mantic

UK/ˈmæntɪk/

mantic adjective: relating to divination; prophetic.

Adjective

mantic (comparative more mantic, superlative most mantic)

  1. Relating to divination; prophetic.
    • [H]e casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future.1921, Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine

Noun

mantic (plural mantics)

  1. A soothsayer, a seer.
    • Surprisingly ignored are Israel’s more momentous earlier prophets or mantic guilds affiliated with Elijah and destined to be transformed into the writing prophets of Judah after 750 […]1999, The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, →OCLC, page 377

mantic meaning in Urdu

mantic in Urdu

پیغمبرانہ

Forms of mantic

Adjective
comparativemore mantic
superlativemost mantic
Noun
pluralmantics

Origin of mantic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).

Words formed from mantic

Words that rhyme with mantic

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Questions about mantic

What does mantic mean?
Mantic means relating to divination; prophetic.
What is mantic in Urdu?
Mantic in Urdu is پیغمبرانہ. See Mantic meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is mantic?
Mantic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce mantic?
Mantic is pronounced /ˈmæntɪk/ (UK).

Words near mantic in the dictionary

  1. manthings
  2. Manthorpe
  3. manti
  4. Mantia
  5. Mantias
  6. mantic
  7. Manticao
  8. manticism
  9. manticisms
  10. manticora
  11. manticoras

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mantic (page history and authors); mantic (Urdu 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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