prescient

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

perceiving the significance of events before they occur; -R.H.Rovere
- "extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"

Adj

Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.

Origin / Etymology

Learned 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”).

Synonyms

clairvoyant, foreknowing, foreseeing, prescientific, prescious, prevoyant

Antonyms

unforeseeing

Scrabble Score: 13

prescient is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
prescient is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
prescient is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

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