Prophetic
adjective
Related to or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
His prophetic vision foretold the disasters that would come.
Often appears as...
- prophetic voice
- prophetic words
adjective
Accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future.
His warnings were seen as prophetic when the company failed.
Often appears as...
- prophetic warning
- prophetic foresight
adjective
Related to or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
His prophetic vision foretold the disasters that would come.
Often appears as...
- prophetic voice
- prophetic words
adjective
Accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future.
His warnings were seen as prophetic when the company failed.
Often appears as...
- prophetic warning
- prophetic foresight
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Biblical Connection
Often used in religious contexts, implying revelation or divine truth.
The preacher's words were seen as prophetic, guiding the congregation.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Usage
Can describe intuitive insights, not just religious predictions.
Her prophetic intuition saved the company from a bad investment.
Pro Tip 3/3Artistic Expression
Used to praise visionary works in art, music, or literature.
The novel's prophetic themes are still relevant today.
Pro Tip 1/3Biblical Connection
Often used in religious contexts, implying revelation or divine truth.
The preacher's words were seen as prophetic, guiding the congregation.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Usage
Can describe intuitive insights, not just religious predictions.
Her prophetic intuition saved the company from a bad investment.
Pro Tip 3/3Artistic Expression
Used to praise visionary works in art, music, or literature.
The novel's prophetic themes are still relevant today.
Pro Tip 1/3Biblical Connection
Often used in religious contexts, implying revelation or divine truth.
The preacher's words were seen as prophetic, guiding the congregation.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Usage
Can describe intuitive insights, not just religious predictions.
Her prophetic intuition saved the company from a bad investment.
Pro Tip 3/3Artistic Expression
Used to praise visionary works in art, music, or literature.
The novel's prophetic themes are still relevant today.
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Video examples
The Messiah Before...
jeselsohn stone named for respected antiquities collector david jeselsohn has recently surfaced I don't have anything like it of such a long prophetic biblical inscription from that time on stone the jeselsohn stone threatens to destroy the claim that christ's crucifixion and resurrection
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How to make a profit...
She made it to the States, and she became a teacher, an award-winning author and a mother, and ended up sending her daughters to Harvard. And these days, you can tell that she is amply comfortable holding court in the most powerful institutions in the world. It seems almost too prophetic
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Is there any truth to...
Malory couldn’t have known how prophetic this inscription would turn out to be. King Arthur has risen again and again in our collective imagination, along with his retinue of knights, Guinevere, the Round Table, Camelot, and of course, Excalibur.
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Why do we sleep? PIPE...
how have I frighted thee?" Shakespeare again, from -- I won't say it -- the Scottish play. From the same "Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." Extremely prophetic, by Thomas Dekker, another Elizabethan dramatist.
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Listening to shame PIPE...
She said, "You're like the worst vulnerability role model ever." Then I looked at her and I said something that at the time felt a little dramatic, but ended up being more prophetic than dramatic.
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Morgan Freeman Decodes...
of the end of days the end of days the apocalypse it's a prophetic book it's got loads of symbolism but it's also very much a political book and making a political claim about the cause of evil
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Elliot Krane: The...
that so is capable of distorting and amplifying the sensory experience that we call pain. So I have hope that in the future, the prophetic words of George Carlin will be realized, who said, "My
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Listening to shame -...
looked at her and I said something that at the time felt a little dramatic but ended up being more prophetic than dramatic I said if five hundred turns into a thousand our two thousand my life
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Karen Tse: How to stop...
So I thank you for having the prophetic imagination to imagine the shaping of a new world with us together, and invite you into this journey with us. Thank you.
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The mystery of chronic...
experience that we call pain so that I have hope that in the future the prophetic words of George Carlin will be realized who said my philosophy no pain no pain
Video examples
The Messiah Before...
jeselsohn stone named for respected antiquities collector david jeselsohn has recently surfaced I don't have anything like it of such a long prophetic biblical inscription from that time on stone the jeselsohn stone threatens to destroy the claim that christ's crucifixion and resurrection
Video examples
How to make a profit...
She made it to the States, and she became a teacher, an award-winning author and a mother, and ended up sending her daughters to Harvard. And these days, you can tell that she is amply comfortable holding court in the most powerful institutions in the world. It seems almost too prophetic
Video examples
Is there any truth to...
Malory couldn’t have known how prophetic this inscription would turn out to be. King Arthur has risen again and again in our collective imagination, along with his retinue of knights, Guinevere, the Round Table, Camelot, and of course, Excalibur.
Video examples
Why do we sleep? PIPE...
how have I frighted thee?" Shakespeare again, from -- I won't say it -- the Scottish play. From the same "Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." Extremely prophetic, by Thomas Dekker, another Elizabethan dramatist.
Video examples
Listening to shame PIPE...
She said, "You're like the worst vulnerability role model ever." Then I looked at her and I said something that at the time felt a little dramatic, but ended up being more prophetic than dramatic.
Video examples
Morgan Freeman Decodes...
of the end of days the end of days the apocalypse it's a prophetic book it's got loads of symbolism but it's also very much a political book and making a political claim about the cause of evil
Video examples
Elliot Krane: The...
that so is capable of distorting and amplifying the sensory experience that we call pain. So I have hope that in the future, the prophetic words of George Carlin will be realized, who said, "My
Video examples
Listening to shame -...
looked at her and I said something that at the time felt a little dramatic but ended up being more prophetic than dramatic I said if five hundred turns into a thousand our two thousand my life
Video examples
Karen Tse: How to stop...
So I thank you for having the prophetic imagination to imagine the shaping of a new world with us together, and invite you into this journey with us. Thank you.
Video examples
The mystery of chronic...
experience that we call pain so that I have hope that in the future the prophetic words of George Carlin will be realized who said my philosophy no pain no pain
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Quote examples
S. Jay Olshansky
American Scientist
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.
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Jean Rostand
French Scientist
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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Paul Theroux
American Novelist
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.
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Petrarch
Italian Poet
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Ari Graynor
American Actress
There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.
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Alveda King
American Clergyman
My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and said that he had a dream and saw me perfectly. He was a prophetic dreamer, like Martin.
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Lord Byron
British Poet
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Leader
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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John Mason Brown
American Critic
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
Brigham Young had a prophetic vision.
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S. Jay Olshansky
American Scientist
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.
Quote examples
Jean Rostand
French Scientist
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Quote examples
Paul Theroux
American Novelist
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.
Quote examples
Petrarch
Italian Poet
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Quote examples
Ari Graynor
American Actress
There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.
Quote examples
Alveda King
American Clergyman
My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and said that he had a dream and saw me perfectly. He was a prophetic dreamer, like Martin.
Quote examples
Lord Byron
British Poet
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Quote examples
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Leader
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Quote examples
John Mason Brown
American Critic
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
Brigham Young had a prophetic vision.
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