Usually means: Anticipating or suggesting something future.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. prefigurative: Merriam-Webster
  2. prefigurative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prefigurative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prefigurative: Vocabulary.com
  5. prefigurative: Wordnik
  6. prefigurative: Wiktionary
  7. Prefigurative, prefigurative: Dictionary.com
  8. Prefigurative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. prefigurative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. prefigurative: Rhymezone
  11. Prefigurative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. prefigurative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. prefigurative: FreeDictionary.org
  14. prefigurative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Prefigurative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefigurative: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Showing by prefiguration.

Similar:
foreshadowing, prophetic, prophetical, adumbrative, premonitory, previsionary, preprophetic, portentive, presagious, prevenient, more...

Opposite:
retrospective, reactionary, traditional, conservative

Phrases:
Prefigurative politics, more...

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Similar:
foreshadowing, prophetic, prophetical, adumbrative, premonitory, previsionary, preprophetic, portentive, presagious, prevenient, more...

Opposite:
retrospective, reactionary, traditional, conservative

Phrases:
Prefigurative politics, more...



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