"prophetlike" meaning in English

See prophetlike in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more prophetlike [comparative], most prophetlike [superlative]
Etymology: From prophet + -like. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|prophet|like}} prophet + -like Head templates: {{en-adj}} prophetlike (comparative more prophetlike, superlative most prophetlike)
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet. Derived forms: unprophetlike
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prophet",
        "3": "like"
      },
      "expansion": "prophet + -like",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From prophet + -like.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more prophetlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most prophetlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prophetlike (comparative more prophetlike, superlative most prophetlike)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -like",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "unprophetlike"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              87,
              98
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009 April 21, Choe Sang-Hun, “South Korea Frees Blogger Who Angered Government”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Mr. Park, an unemployed 31-year-old who wrote about economic matters, gained an almost prophetlike status among many South Koreans after he correctly predicted the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the crash of the South Korean currency and the effects of the American subprime mortgage crisis on South Korea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling or characteristic of a prophet."
      ],
      "id": "en-prophetlike-en-adj-gcxG8SMw",
      "links": [
        [
          "prophet",
          "prophet"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prophetlike"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "unprophetlike"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prophet",
        "3": "like"
      },
      "expansion": "prophet + -like",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From prophet + -like.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more prophetlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most prophetlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prophetlike (comparative more prophetlike, superlative most prophetlike)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -like",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              87,
              98
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009 April 21, Choe Sang-Hun, “South Korea Frees Blogger Who Angered Government”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Mr. Park, an unemployed 31-year-old who wrote about economic matters, gained an almost prophetlike status among many South Koreans after he correctly predicted the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the crash of the South Korean currency and the effects of the American subprime mortgage crisis on South Korea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling or characteristic of a prophet."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prophet",
          "prophet"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prophetlike"
}

Download raw JSONL data for prophetlike meaning in English (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.