vatic
/ˈvætɪk/
vatic adjective: pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
Adjective
vatic (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
- The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford
- “Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes,” proclaimed Miles, with a sort of vatic swoon in his voice.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 129
vatic meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
vatic in Tamil
- முற்கூறி
vatic in Urdu
- الہامی
vatic in Bengali
- নবী সংক্রান্ত, ভবিষ্যদ্বাণীপূর্ণ, দৈববাণী সংক্রান্ত
Examples of vatic in a sentence
- [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.2014 September 26, Tom Payne, “Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, review: 'urgent questions' [print version: The...
- Here is that gush, vatic visions of those ‘fixed, fast-frozen relations’ melting […]2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
Origin of vatic
From Latin vates (“seer, poet”) + -ic.
Words formed from vatic
Words that rhyme with vatic
- automatic
- chromatic
- emphatic
- static
- systematic
- idiomatic
- attic
- hexachromatic
- thematic
- aromatic
- democratic
- hepatic
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- lymphatic
- schematic
- adiabatic
- aristocratic
- asymptomatic
- athematic
- autocratic
- axiomatic
- chiasmatic
- erratic
- fanatic
- fluorochromatic
- interchromatic
- phlegmatic
- prismatic
- psychosomatic
- quadchromatic
- rheumatic
- sciatic
- stromatic
- aerobatic
- altermatic
- aposematic
- asthmatic
- bathochromatic
- bizygomatic
- bureaucratic
- chorochromatic
- chromocratic
- circumzygomatic
- coccochromatic
- curatic
- diabatic
- dyschromatic
- endolymphatic
- episematic
- epistatic
- frontozygomatic
- glymphatic
- goniochromatic
- graphematic
- herostratic
- hydroinformatic
- idiosyncratic
- immunochromatic
- infrazygomatic
- interzygomatic
- katabatic
Questions about vatic
- What does vatic mean?
- Vatic means pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
- What is vatic in Tamil?
- Vatic in Tamil is முற்கூறி. See Vatic meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use vatic in a sentence?
- [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
- What part of speech is vatic?
- Vatic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce vatic?
- Vatic is pronounced /ˈvætɪk/.
Words near vatic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vatic (page history and authors); vatic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vatic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vatic (Bengali 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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