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prophetic

/pruh-fet-ik/US // prəˈfɛt ɪk //UK // (prəˈfɛtɪk) //

预言性的,预言性,预言家,预言

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
    • : of the nature of or containing prophecy: prophetic writings.
    • : having the function or powers of a prophet, as a person.
    • : predictive; presageful or portentous; ominous: prophetic signs; prophetic warnings.

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Examples

  • The succeeding 17 years have certainly proven that prophetic.

  • In a prophetic assignment of acronyms, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, which proposes over $579 billion in new spending on hard projects like roads and bridges, has the unfortunate shorthand of BIF—pronounced biff, which rhymes with whiff.

  • Eight years later, he sounds prophetic — USC is its own kind of Dunk City.

  • Shortly after Lubomir Kavalek was named an international grandmaster of chess in 1965, he was aboard a train en route to Prague when a countryman, the celebrated Czech player Karel Opocensky, made an observation that proved prophetic.

  • Around 400 BCE, Democritus declared that the cosmos is “in reality only atoms and the void,” a prophetic statement if ever there was one.

  • The main article called Reflections on the Final Crusade outlines in prophetic terms just how ISIS will crush Christianity.

  • But there really seems to be something to this idea that King was a bit prophetic when it came to the show.

  • Doug [Ellin] is a genius at capturing the zeitgeist, and I think Entourage was very prophetic.

  • Unfortunately, due to lack of effort, he is missing more than hitting in Black Prophetic Fire.

  • Throughout the entirety of Black Prophetic Fire, he seems to use his celebrity to make the amateur error of arguing by authority.

  • There was not one of us who did not consider this meteoric display prophetic.

  • My prophetic soul reveals to me that a year makes a difference sometimes.

  • Could all the wise men of Rome have explained to Julius Caesar the following dispatch, if given in prophetic vision?

  • No less a genius, surely, the prophetic pines whisper to the listening mother!

  • It lasted very long, and the sailor began to fear that his words had been prophetic.