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prescient
Meaning: showing knowledge of events before they happen
prescient in a sentence
How prescient is used in real sentences:
Her prescient warning anticipated the problems caused by rapid growth.
His prescient investment in solar power succeeded as demand for clean energy rose.
“Her judgment seemed prescient when the poet's performance, advertised as spontaneous, proved identical to a recording he had posted months earlier.”
— from the passage The Velvet Rebellion
“Most damaging was a letter from Soria's sister, whose prescient warning stated that an attempted seizure during the harvest festival would fail once Ortez changed the watch.”
— from the passage The Cipher at Court
Synonyms for prescient
Other words for prescient — foresighted, prophetic and predictive — carry the same meaning.
- foresighted
- prophetic
- predictive
Antonyms of prescient
Words that mean the opposite of prescient:
- unaware
- myopic
- unforeseeing
Where it comes from
From Latin praescire, meaning 'to know beforehand.'
Memory hook
PRE-SCIENT means knowing before: pre is 'before,' and scient is 'knowing.'