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    PROPHETICAL

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     I. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Foretelling events as if by supernatural interventionplay

    Example:

    words that proved prophetic

    Synonyms:

    prophetic; prophetical

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    adumbrative; foreshadowing; prefigurative (indistinctly prophetic)

    apocalyptic; apocalyptical; revelatory (prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom)

    clairvoyant; precognitive; second-sighted (foreseeing the future)

    Delphic; oracular (obscurely prophetic)

    divinatory; mantic; sibyllic; sibylline; vatic; vatical (resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy)

    fateful; foreboding; portentous (ominously prophetic)

    precursory; premonitory (warning of future misfortune)

    predictive; prognostic; prognosticative (of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions)

    Derivation:

    prophecy (knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source))

    prophecy (a prediction uttered under divine inspiration)

    prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)

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