diviner

• 占卜者，预言者；声称能通过超自然力量或直觉预知未来或探知未知事物的人。

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.

   占卜者，预言未来或揭示隐秘之事的人

   • 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.

   同义词augurclairvoyantfortune 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.

   直觉极准的人，仿佛能看透隐情

   • 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.

   同义词intuitiveoraclepercipientsageseer