prophetic
adjective
of or relating to a prophet.
unprophetic
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a word derived from
prophetic.
Example Sentences
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Yearbook editors put a wildly unprophetic line from Hamlet under his picture: "Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither."
From Time Magazine Archive
The power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.
From Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
Swift as the word the parting arrow sings, And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings: Wretch that he was, of unprophetic soul!
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
Or does thy unprophetic fire Thro' the wide realms of solar day Mad Heat or purple Pestilence inspire?
From Gustavus Vasa and other poems by William Sidney Walker
Jesus was seventeen years old when Augustus died—Augustus never heard of him, and the Roman's unprophetic mind sent no searchlight into the future, neither did his eyes behold the Star in the East.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
