Meanings
- not comparablePertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
Here is that gush, vatic visions of those ‘fixed, fast-frozen relations’ melting […]
2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC3 more examples
The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.
1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford“Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes,” proclaimed Miles, with a sort of vatic swoon in his voice.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 129[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
2014 September 26, Tom Payne, “Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, review: 'urgent questions' [print version: The story of our species, 27 September 2014, p. R32]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveresembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
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Origin
- Latinvates“seer, poet”
- Englishvatic
From Latin vates (“seer, poet”) + -ic.
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