| Main Entry: | prescient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | perceptive |
Synonyms: |
farsighted, foresighted, judicious |
| Notes: | prescient is having foreknowledge, parviscient is having little knowledge, and nescient is lacking or disclaiming knowledge |
| Main Entry: | clairvoyant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intuitive, psychic |
Synonyms: |
clear-sighted, discerning, extrasensory, far-sighted, farseeing, fey, judicious, long-sighted, new age, oracular, penetrating, perceptive, prescient, prophetic, second-sighted, sibylline, spiritualistic, telepathic, vatic, visionary |
| Main Entry: | far-sighted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | looking ahead wisely |
Synonyms: |
acute, canny, cautious, clairvoyant, commonsensical, cool-headed, discerning, judicious, levelheaded, perceptive, politic, prescient, provident, prudent, sagacious, sage, shrewd, well-balanced, wise |
Antonyms: |
incautious, rash, shortsighted, uncareful, unthinking, unwise |
| Main Entry: | knowledgeable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aware, educated |
Synonyms: |
abreast, acquainted, alert, appreciative, apprised, au courant, au fait, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, cognizant, conscious, conversant, discerning, erudite, experienced, familiar, in the know, informed, insightful, intelligent, knowing, learned, lettered, omniscient, perceptive, plugged in, posted, prescient, privy, quick-witted, sagacious, sage, savvy, scholarly, sensible, sharp, smart, sophic, sophisticated, tuned-in, understanding, versed, well-informed, well-rounded, wise, with-it |
Antonyms: |
ignorant, unaware, uneducated, uninformed |
| Main Entry: | ominous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing, foreboding |
Synonyms: |
apocalyptic, augural, baleful, baneful, clouded, dangerous, dark, dire, direful, dismal, doomed, doomful, fateful, fearful, forbidding, gloomy, grim, haunting, hostile, ill-boding, ill-fated, impending, inauspicious, inhospitable, lowering, malefic, malificent, malign, minatory, perilous, portentous, precursive, premonitory, presaging, prescient, prophetic, sinister, suggestive, threatening, unfriendly, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious |
Antonyms: |
auspicious, happy, lucky, promising, propitious |
| Main Entry: | oracular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prophetic |
Synonyms: |
Delphian, ambiguous, anticipating, apocalyptic, arcane, auguring, auspicious, authoritative, cabalistic, clairvoyant, cryptic, discovering, divining, divulging, dogmatic, fatidic, foreboding, forecasting, foretelling, imperious, interpretive, mantic, mysterious, mystical, obscure, occult, ominous, peremptory, portending, portentous, positive, predicting, presaging, prescient, proclaiming, prognosticating, prophesying, sage, secret, sibylline, significant, soothsaying, vague, vatic, venerable, wise |
| Main Entry: | prophetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling of the future |
Synonyms: |
Delphian, apocalyptic, augural, divinatory, fatidic, foreshadowing, mantic, occult, oracular, predictive, presaging, prescient, prognostic, prophetical, pythonic, sibylline, vaticinal, veiled |
| Main Entry: | farsighted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | perceptive |
Synonyms: |
acute, canny, cautious, clairvoyant, commonsensical, cool-headed, discerning, far-seeing, judicious, levelheaded, politic, prescient, provident, prudent, sagacious, sage, shrewd, well-balanced, wise |
Antonyms: |
myopic, nearsighted, rash, shortsighted, unwise |
| Main Entry: | apocalyptical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prophetical |
Synonyms: |
apocalyptic, fateful, oracular, portentous, predictive, prescient, prognosticative, prophetic, revelational, revelatory |
| Main Entry: | foresighted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | visionary |
Synonyms: |
farsighted, foreseeing, perceptive, prescient, provident, sagacious |