correctly stating or showing what will happen in the future 正確預言的；有預見的 Many of his warnings proved prophetic. 他的許多警告都證明是有先見之明的。 a book that was prophetic of future developments in science 預示未來科學發展的書
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- seem
- …
- almost
- eerily
- strangely
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- of
like or connected with a prophet or prophets 預言家的；像預言家的；似先知的 the prophetic books of the Old Testament 《〈聖經〉舊約》先知書
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French prophétique or late Latin propheticus, from Greek prophētikos ‘predicting’ (see prophet).