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prophetic adjective [ prəˈfɛtɪk ]

• accurately predicting what will happen in the future.
• "his warnings proved prophetic"
• relating to or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
• "the prophetic books of the Old Testament"
Similar: prescient, predictive, prophetical, far-seeing, prognostic, divinatory, oracular, sibylline, apocalyptic, fateful, revelatory, inspired, vatic, mantic, vaticinal, vaticinatory, prognosticative, augural, adumbrative, fatidic, fatidical,
Origin: late 15th century: from French prophétique or late Latin propheticus, from Greek prophētikos ‘predicting’ (see prophet).


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