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prescient
What does prescient mean?
prescient (adjective): perceiving the significance of events before they occur.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use prescient in a sentence?
- Her prediction about the housing crisis now seems alarmingly prescient. (Tatoeba sentence #13946478 by rul, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce prescient?
/ˈpɹɛsiənt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Words related to prescient
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “prescient” mean?
consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
Not quite: that's what miscellaneous means.
germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms
Not quite: that's what sterile means.
intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Not quite: that's what persuasive means.
perceiving the significance of events before they occur
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