prescious

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/ˈpɹɛsiəs/

adjective

Foreknowing; prescient.

OriginLatin praesciu ← Proto-Indo-European *skey- ← Proto-Italic *prai- →
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Meanings

adjectiveprescious (comparative more prescious, superlative most prescious)

comparative more prescious · superlative most prescious · alternative obsolete præscious

  1. obsoleteForeknowing; prescient.

    Whose holy soul the stroke of Fortune fled— Prescious of ills, and leaving me behind, To drink the dregs of life by fate assign'd

    1697, Virgil, “The Eleventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
prescient

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
  4. Proto-Italic*prai
  5. Proto-Italic*prai-
  6. Latinprae-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*sek-?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*skey-
  9. Latinsciō
  10. Latinscius
  11. Latinpraesciu
  12. Englishprescious

Learned borrowing from Latin praescius.

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APA

prescious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prescious

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Chicago

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