prophetic
Origin of prophetic
1- Sometimes pro·phet·i·cal .
Other words from prophetic
- pro·phet·i·cal·i·ty, pro·phet·i·cal·ness, noun
- pro·phet·i·cal·ly, adverb
- hy·per·pro·phet·ic, adjective
- hy·per·pro·phet·i·cal, adjective
- hy·per·pro·phet·i·cal·ly, adverb
- non·pro·phet·ic, adjective
- non·pro·phet·i·cal, adjective
- non·pro·phet·i·cal·ly, adverb
- post·pro·phet·ic, adjective
- post·pro·phet·i·cal, adjective
- pre·pro·phet·ic, adjective
- pseu·do·pro·phet·ic, adjective
- pseu·do·pro·phet·i·cal, adjective
- qua·si-pro·phet·ic, adjective
- qua·si-pro·phet·i·cal, adjective
- qua·si-pro·phet·i·cal·ly, adverb
- un·pro·phet·ic, adjective
- un·pro·phet·i·cal, adjective
- un·pro·phet·i·cal·ly, adverb
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How to use prophetic in a sentence
(Block neglects to note that Hagel was also outside that consensus on Iraq, and prophetically so).
President Obama Needs to Defend Chuck Hagel If He Is Nominated for Secretary of Defense | Peter Beinart | December 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTJünger, less prophetically, predicted that the generation that fought in the trenches would lead Germany to new greatness.
In the 1960s, workmen on a hill, prophetically called Terra Amata (Beloved Earth), discovered the remains of a prehistoric camp.
J. M.G. Le Clézio on His Birthplace | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | April 6, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTAffairs in France began to assume the complexion that the Count of Ferroll had prophetically announced.
Endymion | Benjamin DisraeliHe could not have spoken with more truth had he been prophetically aware of the issues to which that expedition was to come.
The Makers of Modern Rome | Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
"It's really pitiful to think how unhappy she will be," said Mrs. Rutherford, the next day, shaking her head prophetically.
East Angels | Constance Fenimore WoolsonNor have other writers often been more successful in representing definite objects prophetically to my own mind.
Our Old Home, Vol. 2 | Nathaniel HawthorneFor a thousand reasons: which implies no distinct one something prophetically pressing in her blood.
Evan Harrington, Complete | George Meredith
British Dictionary definitions for prophetic
/ (prəˈfɛtɪk) /
of or relating to a prophet or prophecy
containing or of the nature of a prophecy; predictive
Derived forms of prophetic
- prophetically, adverb
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