PROPHETICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prophetical mean? 

• PROPHETICAL (adjective)
  The adjective PROPHETICAL has 1 sense:

1. foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention

  Familiarity information: PROPHETICAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPHETICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention

Synonyms:

prophetic; prophetical

Context example:

words that proved prophetic

Similar:

adumbrative; foreshadowing; prefigurative (indistinctly prophetic)

apocalyptic; apocalyptical; revelatory (prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom)

clairvoyant; precognitive; second-sighted (foreseeing the future)

Delphic; oracular (obscurely prophetic)

divinatory; mantic; sibyllic; sibylline; vatic; vatical (resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy)

fateful; foreboding; portentous (ominously prophetic)

precursory; premonitory (warning of future misfortune)

predictive; prognostic; prognosticative (of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions)

Derivation:

prophecy (knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source))

prophecy (a prediction uttered under divine inspiration)

prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)