prophetic
adjective/prəˈfɛtɪk/
Frequency rank: #10,760 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
accurately predicting or foreshadowing future events.
Example sentence
Her warning about the storm turned out to be surprisingly prophetic.
Synonyms & related words
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