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prophetlike

prophetlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a prophet.

Adjective

prophetlike (comparative more prophetlike, superlative most prophetlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet.
    • Mr. Park, an unemployed 31-year-old who wrote about economic matters, gained an almost prophetlike status among many South Koreans after he correctly predicted the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the crash of the South Korean currency and the effects of the American subprime mortgage crisis on South...2009 April 21, Choe Sang-Hun, “South Korea Frees Blogger Who Angered Government”, in New York Times

Forms of prophetlike

comparativemore prophetlike
superlativemost prophetlike

Origin of prophetlike

From prophet + -like.

Words formed from prophetlike

Questions about prophetlike

What does prophetlike mean?
Prophetlike means resembling or characteristic of a prophet.
What part of speech is prophetlike?
Prophetlike is an adjective.

Words near prophetlike in the dictionary

  1. prophetize
  2. prophetized
  3. prophetizes
  4. prophetizing
  5. prophetless
  6. prophetlike
  7. prophetocracies
  8. prophetocracy
  9. prophetological
  10. prophetology
  11. prophetry

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