diviner

• Personne qui prétend découvrir l'avenir ou des choses cachées par des moyens surnaturels ou intuitifs ; devin, oracle, prophète.

A person who professes to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge through alleged supernatural means, intuition, or interpreting omens.

1. A person who foretells the future or reveals hidden matters using supernatural or occult methods.C1formal

   An individual who practises divination—the art or practice of seeking knowledge of hidden or future things through the interpretation of signs, omens, entrails, cards, dreams, or alleged spiritual communication.

   devin

   • The king consulted several court seers before declaring war.
   • Ancient Rome had official augurs who interpreted the flight of birds as state prophecy.
   • In the village, the local soothsayer cast bones to predict the harvest.
   • The oracle at Delphi was the most famous conduit of prophecy in antiquity.
   • She visited a palm‑reader hoping to learn about her lost ring.

   Synonymesaugurclairvoyantfortune telleroracleprognosticatorprophetseersoothsayer

2. A person with seemingly intuitive insight, able to guess correctly and avoid error.C2informal

   A perceptive individual whose judgments or guesses appear uncannily accurate because of keen observation, empathy, or life experience, as if possessing a special power to perceive hidden truths.

   Personne à l'intuition perspicace

   • My grandmother was an uncanny guesser of character; her first impressions were never wrong.
   • The detective had a reputation as a mind‑reader for solving cases with little evidence.
   • You needn’t be a clairvoyant to know she’s upset — just look at her face.
   • The investor’s market timing was so perfect that colleagues jokingly called him a wizard.
   • She possesses an almost magical ability to anticipate trends before they appear.

   Synonymesintuitiveoraclepercipientsageseer