fatidic

[ fey-tid-ik, fuh- ]

adjective

1. prophetic.

fatidic

/ feɪˈtɪdɪk /

adjective

1. rare.
   prophetic

Derived Forms

• faˈtidically, adverb

Other Words From

• fa·tid·i·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of fatidic¹

1665–75; < Latin fātidicus, equivalent to fāti- (combining form of fātum fate ) + -dicus one who utters, derivative of dīcere to say

Word History and Origins

Origin of fatidic¹

C17: from Latin fātidicus , from fātum fate + dīcere to say

Example Sentences

At least one believer maintains that the fatidic date of 1 May links the Illuminati to the deaths of Adolf Hitler and Bin Laden, even though Hitler killed himself on 30 April 1945 and Bin Laden was killed in the early hours of 2 May 2011, Pakistan time.

From The Guardian

The king mastered the teachings of the magi of Chald�a and Nineveh; the science of the astrologers of Abydos, Sais, and Memphis; the secrets of the Assyrian sorcerers, mystagogues, and epopts, and of the fatidic� of Baktria and Persepolis; and he had become convinced that their knowledge was but the knowledge of mortals.

From Project Gutenberg

The danger before which he now grew white with fear seemed to realize that fatidic thought, and hang suspended above him on a filament more tenuous than the hair which held aloft the fabled sword of Damocles.

From Project Gutenberg

Adj. predicting &c. v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic†, fatidical†; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent†, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise†. ominous, portentous, augurous†, augurial, augural; auspicial†, auspicious; prescious†, monitory, extispicious†, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.

From Project Gutenberg