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
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
To go to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s period is to get rid of many things; to go to himself is especially to get rid of the New Humour, yet to stand at its unprophetic source.
From The Rhythm of Life by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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 James Russell Lowell
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 Rupert Hughes
