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单词 clairvoyant
释义
clairvoyant
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nadj

If you can predict the future, you may want to keep your clairvoyant powers to yourself. Otherwise everyone will be knocking down your door asking for the next winning lotto numbers.
A clairvoyant individual is believed to possess psychic abilities or a higher level of insight than other humans who can only use the regular old five senses. Through dreams, visions, Ouija boards and crystal balls, they can see what happens in the future. But before 1851, clairvoyant didn't have the same mystical meaning that it does today — it merely meant a “clear-sighted person.”
WORD FAMILY
clairvoyant: clairvoyance, clairvoyantly, clairvoyants+/clairvoyance: clairvoyances
USAGE EXAMPLES
The lineup includes a conjurer, a charlatan, a couple of clairvoyants and the Grand Carlini.
New York Times(Nov 24, 2016)
Prosecutors say the woman told the separate victims she was a clairvoyant.
Washington Times(Oct 20, 2016)
She claimed to be a clairvoyant, and then she delivered a dire warning.
New York Times(Oct 20, 2016)
1n someone who has the power of clairvoyance
Hyper
psychic
a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception
2adj perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
Syn
extrasensory, paranormal
seemingly outside normal sensory channels
3adj foreseeing the future
Syn
precognitive, second-sighted
prophetic, prophetical
foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
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