diviner

noun

də-ˈvī-nər How to pronounce diviner (audio)
Definition of divinernext
as in prophet
one who predicts future events or developments somehow the diviner failed to foresee her own misfortunes with the law

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Recent Examples of diviner While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics. — Essence, 23 Nov. 2025 That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027. — Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025 Questions like these have been asked of diviners around the world throughout history—and still are today. — Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for diviner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diviner
  1. prophet
  2. forecaster
  3. mystic
  4. oracle
  5. sibyl
  6. soothsayer
  7. seer
Noun
  • Walzer's paradigm case was the Hebrew prophet — Amos, Isaiah — and the point is easily missed.
    — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • They were joined by a disciple of the prophet, Jabir ibn Abdullah al-Ansari, believed to be the first pilgrim to visit the grave.
    — Iqbal Akhtar, The Conversation, 31 July 2026
Definition of prophet
Noun
  • Although a gradual cooling trend is expected to begin Sunday, forecasters say temperatures will remain above normal into next week.
    — Julie Sharp, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, any storms that pop up in the Kansas City area should stay garden-variety thunderstorms, forecasters said.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
Definition of forecaster
Noun
  • Distancing myself from the mystic at that moment meant moving away from Madrid.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 July 2026
  • But Goodman’s story is far stranger, and more significant, than that of a dippy mystic or a metaphysical scam artist.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Definition of mystic
Noun
  • Cronenberg is right that artists need not create with posterity in mind, but for a contemporary oracle such as Charli, the concerns of the present do merit consideration.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • Virginia Woolf, the highest oracle for we sad literary girls, is all over the silver screen this summer—thanks to a remarkable trio of new adaptations.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
Definition of oracle
Noun
  • The artist’s ceiling for the Sistine Chapel had included 20 nude males as supporting figures above the prophets and sibyls.
    — Virginia Raguin, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.
    — Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
Definition of sibyl
Noun
  • Colman Domingo plays a soothsayer orchestrating the revelation of decades’ worth of evidence that aliens have visited earth in peace.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 10 June 2026
  • The three soothsayers whose guesses come closest to the actual results will be crowned with a Cinematrix hat, as modeled by Real Housewives of Atlanta peach turned friend-of Cynthia Bailey.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 10 June 2026
Definition of soothsayer
Noun
  • Not in seers, not in sibyls, not in spirits from the great beyond.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Post-Homeric legends relate that after returning to Ithaca Odysseus traveled to northern Greece to appease Poseidon, having descended to the underworld in the Odyssey to consult the seer Tiresias on the manner of expiation.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026
Definition of seer

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“Diviner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diviner. Accessed 6 Aug. 2026.

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