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Definition of prescient in English: prescientadjective ˈprɛsɪəntˈprɛʃ(i)ənt Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place. 预知的；有预知能力的；有先见之明的 有先见之明的警告。 Example sentencesExamples - His study of America amply confirmed this prescient intuition and made him the first anthropologist of modern equality.
- Although no-one has ever followed through on its promises, Radio Ethiopia still sounds astonishingly prescient.
- Read it, then come back and re-read this prescient post from last November.
- It makes no mention at all of White's passionate and prescient warnings.
- It was a prescient point: 10 years on we got the Battle of Seattle.
- He came to the fore with a thundering and prescient prediction of the break-up of Britain, coinciding with the Silver Jubilee.
- This was an astonishingly prescient insight into what was actually to occur in the Russian Revolution.
- It's a little bit scary being such a gifted, prescient individual.
- But as I read on, it became apparent that the novel was so prescient it became unnerving.
- This reveals a prescient insight into the mindset which fuels Connery's anger.
- A beautiful and talented actress, Dorrie ends up in a psychiatric ward, a narrative which seems extraordinarily prescient.
- This proved to be a prescient warning in the case of his son John.
- We take no pleasure in that, and we had to endure some criticism for making such claims, but the warnings proved prescient.
- A few months later, I recall rereading it and finding it scary and prescient.
- He was even, by the way, prescient about the meltdown of the Soviet Union.
- Fitzgerald's prediction is as meaningful today as it was prescient in 1924.
- He proved prescient in his argument that efforts to help the Third World by avalanches of aid would only ruin local markets and nourish corruption.
- His last post before the incident is scarily prescient.
- Orwell's attacks on pacifism now seem remarkably prescient.
- That prediction looks even more prescient since the surge in oil prices.
Synonyms prophetic, predictive, visionary psychic, clairvoyant far-seeing, far-sighted, with foresight, prognostic, divinatory, oracular, sibylline, apocalyptic, fateful, revelatory insightful, intuitive, perceptive, percipient rare foreknowing, previsional, vatic, mantic, vaticinal, vaticinatory, prognosticative, augural, adumbrative, fatidic, fatidical, haruspical, pythonic
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin praescient- 'knowing beforehand', from the verb praescire, from prae 'before' + scire 'know'. Definition of prescient in US English: prescientadjectiveˈprɛʃ(i)əntˈpreSH(ē)ənt Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place. 预知的；有预知能力的；有先见之明的 有先见之明的警告。 Example sentencesExamples - It was a prescient point: 10 years on we got the Battle of Seattle.
- Fitzgerald's prediction is as meaningful today as it was prescient in 1924.
- Although no-one has ever followed through on its promises, Radio Ethiopia still sounds astonishingly prescient.
- This was an astonishingly prescient insight into what was actually to occur in the Russian Revolution.
- Orwell's attacks on pacifism now seem remarkably prescient.
- His study of America amply confirmed this prescient intuition and made him the first anthropologist of modern equality.
- Read it, then come back and re-read this prescient post from last November.
- It's a little bit scary being such a gifted, prescient individual.
- He proved prescient in his argument that efforts to help the Third World by avalanches of aid would only ruin local markets and nourish corruption.
- This proved to be a prescient warning in the case of his son John.
- But as I read on, it became apparent that the novel was so prescient it became unnerving.
- This reveals a prescient insight into the mindset which fuels Connery's anger.
- It makes no mention at all of White's passionate and prescient warnings.
- We take no pleasure in that, and we had to endure some criticism for making such claims, but the warnings proved prescient.
- His last post before the incident is scarily prescient.
- That prediction looks even more prescient since the surge in oil prices.
- A beautiful and talented actress, Dorrie ends up in a psychiatric ward, a narrative which seems extraordinarily prescient.
- He came to the fore with a thundering and prescient prediction of the break-up of Britain, coinciding with the Silver Jubilee.
- A few months later, I recall rereading it and finding it scary and prescient.
- He was even, by the way, prescient about the meltdown of the Soviet Union.
Synonyms prophetic, predictive, visionary
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin praescient- ‘knowing beforehand’, from the verb praescire, from prae ‘before’ + scire ‘know’. |