Prescient

Quick meaning: Prescient is an adjective meaning Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.

Meaning

Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.

Example Sentences

Mean time the king, aſtoniſh'd at the ſign, / Haſtes to conſult his præſcient ſire divine.

Members opposite seem to be prescient; they seem to know what I am going to say before I have said it.

The kind sorrowful blue eyes looked at me for a moment with the prescient sadness of a coming and a long farewell.

Benignant Heaven, præscient and kind, / Made man for toil, and left sweet Sleep behind, / To nerve the arm which labour had unstrung— […]

Synonyms for prescient

Depending on context, synonyms include clairvoyant, foreknowing, foreseeing, prescious, prescientific, prevoyant.

Antonyms for prescient

Common opposites include unforeseeing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include discerning, prescious, forward-looking, visionary, far-sighted, praescient.

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