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单词 prophetic
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prophetic

adjective
/prəˈfetɪk/
/prəˈfetɪk/
(formal)
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  1. correctly stating or showing what will happen in the future
    • Many of his warnings proved prophetic.
    • a book that was prophetic of future developments in science
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • prove
    • seem
    adverb
    • almost
    • eerily
    • strangely
    preposition
    • of
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  2. like or connected with a prophet or prophets
    • the prophetic books of the Old Testament
    Topics Religion and festivalsc2
  3. Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French prophétique or late Latin propheticus, from Greek prophētikos ‘predicting’ (see prophet).
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