Synonyms for prescient
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
prophetic, clairvoyant, foresighted, prevoyant, prescientific rare, prescious dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.
Example sentences
- prophetic Tom has a prophetic level of paranoid intuition.
- clairvoyant Everything happened exactly as the clairvoyant had predicted.
- foresighted You are foresighted and will succeed.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| prescient | rising | |
| prophetic | rising | |
| clairvoyant | rising | |
| foresighted | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 9 letters
- prophetic3, prevoyant, prescious
- 11 letters
- clairvoyant3, foresighted
- 13 letters
- prescientific
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (prophetic3 = 3 syllables).