Definition of prophetic
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: foretelling events : predictive
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Examples of prophetic in a Sentence
the prophetic books of the Old Testament
in retrospect, those lower-than-expected sales numbers were a prophetic indicator of the financial trouble the company would soon be in
Recent Examples of prophetic from the Web
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Last year's tour focused on buildings in floodplains, perhaps a bit prophetic with Hurricane Harvey arriving a handful of months later.
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Cline’s novel has already proved prophetic in the digital space.
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In the spring of 2016, longtime political operative Roger Stone had a phone conversation that would later seem prophetic, according to the person on the other end of the line.
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In the spring of 2016, longtime political operative Roger Stone had a phone conversation that would later seem prophetic, according to the person on the other end of the line.
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And no warnings about the dangers of neoliberalism have been half as effective as King’s sincere prophetic vision about the perils of poverty in a hyper-capitalist nation.
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Martin Luther King Commemoration, 6-9 p.m. at Alverno College, 3400 S. 43rd St. Gospel choir performance and community dinner with keynote speech about the value of King and his work and prophetic oratory.
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Many Jews, for their part, have long viewed the missionary work of evangelicals and their messianic, prophetic beliefs with suspicion.
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Yeats’s speaker has gained prophetic vision through sharing in the drink of the Country of the Young—the land of the immortals, in Irish myth.
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First Known Use of prophetic
15th century
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baleful, dire, foreboding, menacing, portentous, sinister, threatening;
PROPHETIC Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of prophetic for English Language Learners
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: correctly stating what will happen in the future
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: of or relating to a prophet or to prophecy
PROPHETIC Defined for Kids
Definition of prophetic for Students
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: of or relating to a prophet or prophecy
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: serving to foretell
- His cough was prophetic of an early death.
- —Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
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