Prescient

/ˈpɹɛsiənt/ · adjective

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

And if the præſcient Muſes guide my Lay, / Or, future Secrets, Phœbus can diſplay, / The Day ſhall ſhine diſtinguiſh'd from the reſt, / That Anna dignify'd, and Hymen bleſt; […]

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

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

It seems that human nature, when its original habits are cultivated and attended to, possesses something upon the same occasion of that prescient foreboding, which announces the approaching tempest to the inferior ranks of creation.

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

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

[Neil] Warnock described City as the best team in Europe in the build-up to this match and joked that his players had been preparing for the game – and City's inevitable dominance – by training without a ball. It proved to be a prescient quip, as the home side had to toil for long periods, struggling to lay a glove on their stylish opponents.

The 2017 report […] discussed the possibility of a pandemic plunging the world into economic chaos. While it forecast that a pandemic would begin in 2023, as opposed to 2020, its warnings about travel restrictions, economic distress and isolation were prescient.

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• more prescient
• most prescient
• præscient
• praescient

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