Synonyms of futurists

futurists

noun

plural of futurist

as in diviners

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• diviners
• forecasters
• prophets
• mystics
• sibyls
• seers
• soothsayers
• prognosticators
• oracles
• visionaries
• fortune-tellers
• foretellers
• augurs
• foreseers
• prophetesses
• astrologers
• prophesiers
• doomsayers
• Cassandras
• palmists
• wisewomen
• Jeremiahs
• doomsdayers
• crystal gazers
• rhabdomancers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of futurists

During the Cold War, as futurists on both sides of the Iron Curtain plotted to control the direction of history, another group coalesced around a more modest idea. — Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Meanwhile, futurists and the Bureau of Labor Statistics project that Gen Z and Gen Alpha will average 18 to 25 jobs and six to nine distinct career chapters, more than double the volatility of prior generations. — Laurel Donnellan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Some futurists compare this development to our primitive ancestors’ discovery of fire. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026

For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes. — Calmatters, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026

The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case. — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026

Tech CEOs and futurists have long described Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, as one of the ultimate goals of artificial intelligence. — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 9 Dec. 2025

What’s clear is that crypto has become much bigger than the retail traders and techno futurists who are committed to HODLing through thick and thin. — Emily Nicolle, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025

By contrast, contemporary techno-futurists like Musk lead powerful multinational corporations that influence economies and cultures across the globe. — Sonja Fritzsche, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025