prophetic
Seeing what comes
Prophetic describes something that predicts or foreshadows the future: Her warnings proved prophetic when the market crashed.
The word often carries weight—prophetic statements feel significant, even divinely inspired, rather than mere guesses.
A prophet speaks prophetically.
Something can seem prophetic only in hindsight: The novel's vision of surveillance culture now seems eerily prophetic.
Prophetic indicator
- portentSign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- presageIndicate beforehand
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
foreboding · foreshadowing · herald · precursor · warning · augury · auspice · prognostic
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- sibylAncient female prophet
soothsayer · theophany · epiphany · messianic · apocalyptic · sacred · augury · clairvoyance
One who envisions futures
- futuristTomorrow trends scholar
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
prescience · insight · dreamer · utopian · precognition · prognostication · prediction · forecast
Pertaining to ultimate devastation
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- fatefulDetermining future outcomes
- ill-omenedPortending misfortune ahead
- inauspiciousShowing poor prospects
portentous · baleful · foreboding · grim · dark · menacing · sinister · dreadful
Sleeping mind's narrative
- visionAbility to see
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- sleepRecurring unconscious repose
nightmare · interpretation · Joseph · Daniel · symbolism · unconscious · visitation · nocturnal
omen
Prophetic indicator
premonition · foreboding · foreshadowing · herald · precursor · warning · augury · auspice · prognostic · foretell
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
sibyl · soothsayer · theophany · epiphany · messianic · apocalyptic · sacred · augury · clairvoyance · priestly
seer
One who envisions futures
- futuristTomorrow trends scholar
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
foresight · prescience · insight · dreamer · utopian · precognition · prognostication · prediction · forecast · speculative
apocalyptic
Pertaining to ultimate devastation
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- fatefulDetermining future outcomes
- ill-omenedPortending misfortune ahead
inauspicious · portentous · baleful · foreboding · grim · dark · menacing · sinister · dreadful · premonitory
dream
Sleeping mind's narrative
sleep · nightmare · interpretation · Joseph · Daniel · symbolism · unconscious · visitation · nocturnal · dreamscape
- End Timesapocalypse, Armageddon, rapture, end times, tribulation
- sacred adjectivesdivine, holy, blessed, sacred, sanctified
- dramatic tonesintense, tense, suspenseful, ominous, foreboding
- superpowerstelekinesis, telepathy, superpower, invisibility, force powers
- status effectsdebuffed, poison, hexed, burn, cursed
- Forward-thinkingvisionary, innovative, progressive, pioneering, futuristic
propheticretrospective
Reviewing what came before
backward-looking · historical · nostalgic · commemorative · reflective
propheticwrong
Contrary to fact
mistaken · unfulfilled · erroneous · misguided · inaccurate
propheticshortsighted
Unable to see ahead
myopic · blind · oblivious · unaware · imperceptive
- false prophetDeceiver claiming divine insight
- prophet of doomForeteller of calamity
- prophetic visionForeknowledge of future events
- prophetic dreamSleep vision predicting events
- Prophet MuhammadIslam's founding messenger
- The ProphetOne receiving divine revelation