prescient
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8.9
- adjective
- /ˈprɛʃənt/
- Formal
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presciente
- The author's prescient observations about technology's impact on society were astonishing.
- remarkably prescient
- proved prescient
- prescient warnings
It was really sort of prescient on Tom Daschle's part.
- It was really sort of prescient on Tom Daschle's part.
- It is very prescient and very pertinent.
- You know, I mean, to me, the most prescient thing anybody ever said was Andy Warhol.
- And when I look at it, I see it as basically a very prescient type of photograph.
- Your last newsletter was it was so prescient, it was so far ahead, but so accurate.
- It's not, it's not like psychic, it's just being prescient.
- And so in many ways I see that it was prescient.
- And in retrospect, the title of the panel was quite prescient because it said it was entitled Remember This.
- It's it was an urgent and prescient warning that our democracy is on the edge of disaster.
- And I think it's, it's so prescient because we're in the middle of an extraordinary moment right now in terms of climate activism and awareness.
- And then, I mean, this is where it's kind of a prescient story, he says.
- This is some some very almost prescient stuff that Hegel is talking about.
- And it doesn't make me feel prescient.
- Of course, ISIS is probably the worst, but maybe the most prescient right now is Vladimir Putin.
- And the reason why it's funny is because it's prescient.
Examples
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John Quincy Adams proved to be the most prescient about the coming conflict.
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Well, he had some prescient insights, actually.
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I mean, Arrested Development, incredible show that sort of was prescient about the Trump.
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But the first is go read Snow Crash and appreciate how prescient that book was.
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In so many ways and in so much of his work, he has always been prescient.
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Your last newsletter was it was so prescient, it was so far ahead, but so accurate.
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It's it was an urgent and prescient warning that our democracy is on the edge of disaster.
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And I think it's, it's so prescient because we're in the middle of an extraordinary moment right now in terms of climate activism and awareness.
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So Jim's book Currency Wars is as prescient as it comes.
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Susan's work has been prescient over the years, often signaling ideas and approaches to come.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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9.3
Showing or claiming the ability to see events before they happen
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9.9
To know about an event before it happens
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9.8
A sign that warns of something bad that may happen
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9.1
Saying that something will happen in the future, often by a religious person
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6.5
To plan ahead to meet future needs and avoid problems
Relating to ways people try to tell the future
Feeling that something will happen before it does
Able to think about and plan for the future
Suggests or shows what will happen later in a vague, symbolic way
Showing or suggesting something that will happen later
Antonyms
How Predictive
Surface Forms
Morphology
prescient = prescience (semi-transparent) = pre + sci + ent
The prefix 'pre-' ('before') and the idea of 'knowing' are recoverable, but the root 'sci-' is not a standalone English word and may be unfamiliar or be confused with 'science', so the connection is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Prescient comes from the Latin parts prae- meaning 'before' and scire meaning 'to know', the same root as in science. So to be prescient is to 'know before' — to see or predict events before they happen.