futurist

noun

ˈfyü-chə-rist How to pronounce futurist (audio)
Definition of futuristnext
as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments economic futurists predict a new world order in which information is the resource that drives a nation's economy

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Recent Examples of futurist Thank you to my fellow globe-trotting futurist Natalie Monbiot for the press pass. — Jesse Kirshbaum, SPIN, 15 May 2026 Last but not least, a 1981 DeLorean will provide a retro-futurist cruise down Route 66. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026 Kurzweil, a leader in AI for 64 years, an author, inventor, and futurist, has predicted that AI will achieve human-level intelligence by 2029. — Time, 5 May 2026 And the he general pattern of interest around Orwell points to something more durable than his novels’ futurist menace or academic nostalgia. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for futurist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for futurist
  1. diviner
  2. forecaster
  3. prophet
  4. mystic
  5. sibyl
Noun
  • 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, 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
Definition of diviner
Noun
  • Charlotte-area forecasters are monitoring Canadian wildfire smoke choking a wide swath of the country, from the Great Lakes to Pennsylvania and New York.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026
  • But forecasters said that more smoke could travel back into the area later on Friday, worsening the pollution on Saturday—though not as bad as the air quality was on Thursday—before finally clearing up on Sunday.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 17 July 2026
Definition of forecaster
Noun
  • James Remar as Tiresias Tiresias is the blind prophet Odysseus seeks out in the underworld.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
  • The body is expected to arrive later Wednesday in Karbala, a holy city for Shiite Muslims where the Imam Hussein, the grandson of the prophet, was killed in 680 AD.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Definition of prophet
Noun
  • 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
  • Centuries before contemporary artists presented a way to pay attention without words, the mystics had searched for it.
    — Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of mystic
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

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