Entry Word: prophetic

Function: adjective

Meaning:

or prophetical

being a sign of a later course of events <the breaking of the cereal bowl was a prophetic start to a day filled with accidents and foul-ups>

Synonyms predictive

Related Words baleful, dire, foreboding, menacing, portentous, sinister, threatening; inauspicious, unpromising; oracular; revelatory, telling

Near Antonyms auspicious, promising, propitious, rosy