释义 |
fortune-tellerˈfortune-ˌteller noun [countable] - I knew that as a fortune-teller and spirit medium, she was paid to console or cajole the dead.
- I thought of all the times the fortune-teller who had come to North Crittendon had told me the same thing.
- Mrs Bay and the fortune-teller laughed and rolled their eyes with unfastened abandon.
- The fortune-teller will probably agree with the problems, and then tell you how irrelevant they are.
- The fortune-teller would hardly relay bad tidings, for who would be generous, learning of coming sorrows?
- The gypsies themselves were more colorful than the trees in autumn, but the fortune-teller was different.
- What if the fortune-teller was destroying her hope and joy with that strange, harsh voice.
► Occultbanshee, nouncoven, noundemon, noundemonic, adjectivedevil, nounESP, nounevil, adjectiveexorcism, nounexorcist, nounexorcize, verbextra-sensory perception, nounfiend, nounfortune-teller, nounmedium, nounmind reader, nounnecromancy, nounpalmist, nounpalmistry, nounpalm reader, nounparanormal, adjectiveparapsychology, nounpossessed, adjectiveprophecy, nounprophesy, verbpsychic, adjectivepsychic, nounpsychokinesis, nounseance, nounsoothsayer, nounspirit, nounSvengali, nountarot, nountelepathic, adjectivetelepathy, nounwitch, nounwizard, noun someone who uses cards or looks at people’s hands in order to tell them what is supposed to happen to them in the future—fortune telling noun [uncountable] |