PRESCIENT


Meaning of PRESCIENT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ presiənt, AM preʃ- ]

If you say that someone or something was prescient , you mean that they were able to know or predict what was going to happen in the future. ( FORMAL )

...‘Bob Roberts’, an eerily prescient comedy about a populist multimillionaire political candidate.

ADJ

• pres‧ci‧ence

Over the years he’s demonstrated a certain prescience in foreign affairs.

N-UNCOUNT

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