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Definition: Prophetical |
PropheticalAdjective1. Foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prophetical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: PropheticalSynonym: prophetic (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unprophetic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Prophetical |
| English words defined with "prophetical": Propheticalness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prophetical": Naioth. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prophetical": Vaticinate. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the year 1770 / Bute & Wilkes invent. ; Mercurius & Appeles fect. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Prophetical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prophetical" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "prophetical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 预言 (foretell, foretelling, foretold, Predict, Predicted, Predicting, Prediction, Prophetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prorocký (fatidical, oracular, prescient, prophetic, vatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | prophetische (predictively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προφητικόσ (predictive, prophetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | prófétai (prophetic, vaticinal), látnoki (clairvoyant, divining, fatidical, prophetic, vatic), jósló (divining, predictive, prophetic), jövendőmondó (augur, cole prophet, diviner, divining, prophet, prophetic, soothsayer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | seperti ramalan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 예언 (Predicting, Prophetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tuaragh, fadeyragh (prophesy, prophesying), faaishnagh (divination, fortune-teller, fortune-telling, predictive, soothsayer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opheticalpray profético (oracular, predictive, prophetic). (various references) peygamberce (prophetic), kehanet gibi (oracular, prophetic, Sibylline), kâhince (prophetic). (various references) пророчий (fatidic, fatidical, oracular, oraculous, precursive, precursory, predictive, prognostic, prophetic, vatic, vatical). (various references) tiên tri (foreboding, prescient, prophetic), đoán trước (beforehand, previsional, prognosticative, prognosticatory, prophetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prophetical": prophetically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-o-p-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: captopril, pitchpole, plethoric, precoital, proleptic, prophetic. | |
-3 letters: acrolith, aerolith, atrophic, calthrop, capriole, chapiter, chelator, chlorate, chlorite, choppier, clothier, copperah, erotical, helicopt, heliport, heroical, leprotic, loricate, oilpaper, operatic, oppilate, orphical, parhelic, particle, patchier, pectoral, petiolar, petrolic, phreatic, plethora, poachier, poetical, potlache, prelatic, trochlea, tropical. | |
-4 letters: achiote, airhole, aloetic, aphetic, aphotic, applier, apricot, aprotic, article. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-o-p-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: prophetically. | |
+3 letters: petrographical. | |
+5 letters: petrographically, plethysmographic. | |
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