Meaning & use
prophetic
Accurately predicting or foreshadowing future events, as if by supernatural insight.
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Her warning about the market crash turned out to be eerily prophetic.
The novel's prophetic vision of surveillance technology feels relevant today.
A note on using this word
Prophetic often describes a statement recognized as accurate only after the predicted event actually occurs.
Words with a similar meaning
predictivevisionary
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