PRESCIENT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for PRESCIENT?

Need another word that means the same as “prescient”? Find 3 synonyms and 30 related words for “prescient” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Prescient” are: prophetic, predictive, visionary

Prescient as an Adjective

Definitions of "Prescient" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “prescient” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Perceiving the significance of events before they occur.
• Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.
• Perceiving the significance of events before they occur-R.H.Rovere.

Synonyms of "Prescient" as an adjective (3 Words)

predictive	Relating to or having the effect of predicting an event or result. Predictive typing allows you to type faster.
prophetic	Foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention. Prophetic writings.
visionary	Not practical or realizable; speculative. Visionary schemes for getting rich.

Usage Examples of "Prescient" as an adjective

• Extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations.
• A prescient warning.

Associations of "Prescient" (30 Words)

acumen	A tapering point. She hides a shrewd business acumen.
clairvoyance	The supposed faculty of perceiving things or events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact. She stared at the card as if she could contact its writer by clairvoyance.
clairvoyant	Having or exhibiting clairvoyance. He didn t tell me about it and I m not clairvoyant.
discerning	Quick to understand- Nathaniel Hawthorne. A discerning critic.
discernment	The ability to judge well. An astonishing lack of discernment.
discriminating	Showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste. He became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts.
forecast	A prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop. Coal consumption in Europe is forecast to increase.
foresight	The front sight of a gun. He had the foresight to check that his escape route was clear.
insight	The clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation. His mind soared to previously unattainable heights of insight.
insightful	Exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception. The chapter is insightful and suggestive of new perspectives.
intelligent	Having or showing intelligence, especially of a high level. Is there intelligent life in the universe.
judgment	The act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event. He was reluctant to make his judgment known.
knowing	Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding. Today s society is too knowing too corrupt.
perceptive	Having or showing sensitive insight. A perceptive observation.
percipient	A person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses. A percipient author.
perspicacious	Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning. Much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument.
perspicacity	The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions. The perspicacity of her remarks.
politic	Engage in political activity. A politic old scoundrel.
prediction	A statement made about the future. A prediction that economic growth would resume.
sagacious	Skillful in statecraft or management. Observant and thoughtful he was given to asking sagacious questions.
sagacity	The quality of being sagacious. A man of great political sagacity.
sapience	Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight.
sapient	Wise, or attempting to appear wise. Members of the female quarter were more sapient but no less savage than the others.
sapiential	Characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God. I saw them as sapiential metaphors far more meaningful than their didactic pretext.
sensible	Aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed- Henry Hallam- E. A sensible odor.
smart	Intelligence; acumen. He gave the dog a smart blow.
tactful	Showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people. A tactful remark eased her embarrassment.
understanding	Characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy. I knew I could count on his understanding.
wisdom	An Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC. Some questioned the wisdom of building the dam so close to an active volcano.
wise	Evidencing the possession of inside information. In no wise.