unprophetic
- 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
Oh, our unprophetic soul, did the day indeed dawn—many long years after this our earliest great conquest yet traditional in the parish—that ere nightfall witnessed our defeat by—a tailor!
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
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 Benson, Arthur Christopher
This production, which now stands at the head of the list of his published works, was curiously unprophetic of his later tendencies.
From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. by Lowell, James Russell
And yet, for a life so proverbially given over to flirtations as his, the beginnings were strangely unprophetic.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Hughes, Rupert
