Definition of prophetic Prophetic

/pɹʌfɛˈtɪk/ - [prufetik] - pro•phet•ic

We found 4 definitions of prophetic from 3 different sources.

What does prophetic mean?

Adjective
prophetic - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"
		prophetical
		unprophetic not prophetic; not foreseeing correctly
		adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative indistinctly prophetic
		apocalyptical, apocalyptic, revelatory prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom
		precognitive, second-sighted, clairvoyant foreseeing the future
		delphic, oracular obscurely prophetic; "Delphic pronouncements"; "an oracular message"
		mantic, sibyllic, vatic, vatical, divinatory, sibylline resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
		foreboding, portentous, fateful of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
		precursory, premonitory warning of future misfortune