prescient

/ˈpɹiːʃɪənt/adjective

Seeming to know about events before they actually happen.

Example sentence

“Her prescient warning about the housing market proved correct two years later.”

Usually 'PRESH-ent'. Journalists' praise for warnings that proved right: 'a prescient warning about the crash'.

Related words

prescriptionAn official written instruction from a doctor authorizing a patient to receive a medicine or treatment, such as glasses of a certain strength.preposterousCompletely ridiculous and against all common sense.presentationThe act of showing or giving something to others, or the thing that is shown.premonitionA strange feeling or dream that seems to warn of something before it happens.preserveA sweet fruit spread made by cooking fruit, often with sugar.predominantFound most often or most widely; more common than anything else.