Prescient - English meaning

adjective

Describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.

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The apocalyptic visions of ecologists

adjective

Showing or describing the total destruction and end of the world, or extremely bad future events

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Apocalyptic vision apocalyptic visions of a nuclear confrontation, apocalyptic warnings about our d…

noun

A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.

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She has had a message from a clairvoyant that her son is alive and well

adjective

Having or exhibiting clairvoyance.

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He didn't tell me about it and i'm not clairvoyant

adjective

Having good judgment about what will be needed in the future and making wise decisions based on this

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Buying those shares was a very far-sighted move—they must be worth ten times their original value n…

adjective

Having far-reaching and often disastrous consequences or implications.

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A fateful oversight

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Having a very important and often negative effect on the future

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In 1971, president richard nixon made a fateful decision to install tape recorders in the white hou…

adjective

Having or showing an accurate and deep understanding; perceptive.

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Thank you for all the insightful comments

adjective

Showing a clear and usually original understanding of a complicated problem or situation

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She has written an insightful account of the modern art world., he was, of course, very funny and i…

adjective

Using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive.

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His intuitive understanding of the readers' real needs

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Based on feelings rather than facts or proof

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An intuitive approach/judgment, most people have an intuitive sense of right and wrong., good agent…

adjective

Relating to an oracle.

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The oracular shrine

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Mysterious and difficult to understand, but probably wise

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An oracular statement

adjective

Relating to or having the effect of predicting an event or result.

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Predictive accuracy

adjective

Relating to the ability to predict

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The test has a predictive accuracy of 95%., the predictive value of this new method of analysis has…

adjective

Relating to or serving to predict the likely course of a medical condition.

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The prognostic importance of the antibody

noun

An advance indication of a future event; an omen.

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A pale moon and watery sun are known as prognostics of rain

adjective

Relating to a doctor's judgment of the likely or expected development of a disease or of the chances of getting better

adjective

Accurately predicting what will happen in the future.

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His warnings proved prophetic

adjective

Relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance.

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Psychic powers

noun

A person considered or claiming to have psychic powers; a medium.

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Pier-end palmists and fake psychics

adjective

Having to do with the mind and the emotions rather than with the body

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Regular exercise has psychic as well as physical benefits., psychic phenomena

adjective

Revealing something hitherto unknown.

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A revelatory experience

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic and mysterious.

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One glimpses them, uttering sibylline predictions of weal and woe

adjective

Thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom.

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A visionary leader

noun

A person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like.

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He is a visionary keen on policy-making

noun

A person who is able to imagine how a country, society, industry, etc., will or should develop in the future and to plan in a suitable way

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She was a social reformer, a true visionary.