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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
- adjective Foretelling events as if by divine inspiration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to a prophet or to prophecy; having the character of prophecy; containing prophecy: as, prophetic writings.
- Presageful; predictive: with of before the thing foretold.
- Anticipative; having or tending to a presentiment or an intuitive discernment of the future.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; ; -- used with
of before the thing foretold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or relating to a
prophecy or aprophet - adjective
predicted , as by a prophecy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
Etymologies
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Examples
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His name has been synonymous with the phrase "prophetic imagination" for three decades of preachers and Christian teachers.
Krista Tippett: The Prophetic Imagination Of Walter Brueggemann Krista Tippett 2011
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His name has been synonymous with the phrase "prophetic imagination" for three decades of preachers and Christian teachers.
Krista Tippett: The Prophetic Imagination Of Walter Brueggemann Krista Tippett 2011
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Note the use of the term prophetic by both, with its complex of connotations quite at odds with the grounding in science — religion and rapture, voices and visions, the conjuring otherwise known as fantasy defined, for the moment, not in terms of literature but in terms of psychology: the sustained fancy; the ludic or oneiric imagining; from the Greek phantasia; a making visible.
Notes from New Sodom: Down in the Ghetto at the SF Café 2009
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But what we shall be saying about it depends largely, I suppose, upon our definition of the term prophetic; also a little upon our feeling with regard to good taste and the permissible in fiction.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917 Various
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And I open it as a pastor and a professor who comes from a long tradition of what I call the prophetic theology of the black church.
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He speaks about God from what we call the prophetic posture.
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[8] In 2003, Tamaki, in what he described as a prophetic utterance, predicted that Destiny would be "ruling the nation" within five years.
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But Mrs. Whishtablount knew a thing or two about religious people, especially the dangerous crowds that milled around in prophetic theme parks, and she alone realized the danger in which Santa now found himself.
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Last Day, the preterite for the future in prophetic style.
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Mr. Davis, as if in prophetic vision, seemed to take in at a glance our growing and glorious Republic with its vine-clad hills, its mill-strewn vales, its sunlit homes, its wire-woven, iron-bound lands, and sail-wreathed oceans.
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Words with the same meaning
- 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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Other words for 'prophetic'
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Words with the same terminal sound
- Athletic
- Peripatetic
- acetic
- aesthetic
- alphabetic
- anesthetic
- apathetic
- apologetic
- arithmetic
- ascetic
- athletic
- cosmetic
- diabetic
- diamagnetic
- dietetic
- diuretic
- electromagnetic
- emetic
- empathetic
- energetic
- epigenetic
- esthetic
- ferromagnetic
- frenetic
- genetic
- geomagnetic
- homiletic
- hyperkinetic
- kinesthetic
- kinetic
- magnetic
- paramagnetic
- parasympathetic
- parthenogenetic
- pathetic
- peripatetic
- phonetic
- poetic
- prosthetic
- sympathetic
- synergetic
- synthetic
- unapologetic
- unsympathetic
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