prophetic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
prophetic
    adj 1: foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention;
           "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that
           proved prophetic" [syn: {prophetic}, {prophetical}] [ant:
           {unprophetic}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Prophetic \Pro*phet"ic\, Prophetical \Pro*phet"ic*al\, a. [L.
   propheticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. proph['e]tique.]
   Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events;
   as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of
   before the thing foretold.
   [1913 Webster]

         And fears are oft prophetic of the event. --Dryden.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "prophetic":
      Biblical, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament,
      apocalyptic, apostolic, augural, auguring, canonical, divinatory,
      evangelic, evangelistic, fatidic, forecasting, foreseeing,
      foretelling, forewarning, fortunetelling, gospel, haruspical,
      inspired, interpretive, mantic, mysterious, mystic, oracular,
      predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring,
      presageful, presaging, prescient, presignificative, presignifying,
      prognostic, prognosticative, revealed, revelational, revelatory,
      scriptural, sibyllic, sibylline, strange, textual, textuary,
      theopneustic, unexplainable, vaticinal, vaticinatory,
      weather-wise

    

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