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prophetic

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accurately predicting future events or serving as a warning about what is to come

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Prophetic in a sentence

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His 1970 essay on environmental degradation now reads as eerily prophetic.

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Antonyms
obliviousshortsightedmistaken

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The naturalist warned that the alpine bloom was blank, a spectacle of color that would vanish within days of the thaw, leaving no trace by midsummer.

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Prophetic (adjective) means accurately predicting future events or serving as a warning about what is to come
Here is prophetic used in an example sentence: "His 1970 essay on environmental degradation now reads as eerily prophetic."
Common synonyms for prophetic include prescient, visionary, oracular.
Antonyms of prophetic include oblivious, shortsighted, mistaken.
Prophetic is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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