prophetic
/pɹəˈfɛtɪk/
prophetic adjective: having the ability to prophesize; prescient.
Adjective
prophetic (not comparable)
- Having the ability to prophesize; prescient.
- [Ghost] But know thou noble Youth: he that did sting / Thy fathers heart, now weares his Crowne. / Ham. O my prophetike soule, my uncle! my uncle!c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604...
- Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.
- Despite his intention, his work had the effect of revealing the mythological, prophetic, and utopian sense of Marxism which had eluded Marx's more scientistic followers.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...
- Predicted, as by a prophecy.
- And fears are oft prophetic of the event.1717, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Ozell, “Book X”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
prophetic meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
prophetic in Tamil
- தீர்க்கதரிசனமான, தீர்க்கதரிசிக்குரிய, வருவதுணர்த்தும், முன்னுணர்ந்துரைக்கும், எதிர்காலத்தைக் கண்டுரைக்கும்
prophetic in Urdu
- نبوی
prophetic in Bengali
- ভবিষ্যদ্বাণীমূলক, পয়গম্বর সংক্রান্ত
prophetic in Telugu
- ప్రవచనాత్మకం, ప్రవచనాత్మక
More languagesFewer languages
- prophetic in Malayalam
- പ്രവചനപരമായ
- prophetic in Kannada
- ಭವಿಷ್ಯಸೂಚಕ, ಪ್ರವಾದಿಯಂಥ
- prophetic in Gujarati
- ભવિષ્યસૂચક
- prophetic in Indonesian
- profetis, profetik
Examples of prophetic in a sentence
- You can't, for example, buy compassion or artistic abilities, and you can't buy prophetic giftings.
- Like the Babylonian dream-Goddess, Nanshe, Brizo brought prophetic dreams which were later called wet dreams.
- Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python, and established a great prophetic shrine.
Forms of prophetic
| alternative form | prophetical |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | prophetick |
Origin of prophetic
Borrowed from Middle French prophétique, from Latin prophēticus, from Ancient Greek προφητικός (prophētikós), equivalent to prophet + -ic.
Words formed from prophetic
Phrases with prophetic
Questions about prophetic
- What does prophetic mean?
- Prophetic means having the ability to prophesize; prescient.
- What is prophetic in Tamil?
- Prophetic in Tamil is தீர்க்கதரிசனமான, தீர்க்கதரிசிக்குரிய, வருவதுணர்த்தும். See Prophetic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is prophetic?
- Prophetic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce prophetic?
- Prophetic is pronounced /pɹəˈfɛtɪk/.
Words near prophetic in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: prophetic (page history and authors); prophetic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prophetic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prophetic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prophetic (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prophetic (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prophetic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prophetic (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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