prescient
Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to…Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.
» The film was alarmingly prescient about political polarization.
Meaning
1 sensesExhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.
hellsichtig, vorausschauend, vorausahnend
дальновидныйdalʹnovidnyj
передбачливийperedbačlyvyj, пророчийproročyj
- perceiving the significance of events before they occur
Examples
6 sentencesThe film was alarmingly prescient about political polarization.
Her prediction about the housing crisis now seems alarmingly prescient.
The old science-fiction novel was alarmingly prescient about surveillance technology.
The report's conclusions were alarmingly prescient in light of later events.
Aaron's warning sounded exaggerated at the time, but it proved alarmingly prescient.
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), presentLearned borrowing from Latin praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), present participle of) Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sciō (“to know, understand; to have knowledge of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)). The word is cognate with Middle French prescient (modern French prescient (“prescient”)), Italian presciente (“prescient”). By surface analysis, pre- (“earlier in time, beforehand”) + scient (“knowing, aware”).
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Forms
more prescient, most prescient| Comparative | more prescient Lesson |
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regular
Synonyms
6 synonymsAntonyms
1 antonymsWord family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
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