diviner
Plural: diviners
Noun
- One who foretells the future or discovers things by intuition.
- someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers
- One who foretells the future.
- One who divines or conjectures.
- One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
Adjective Satellite
- emanating from God; ; ; -Saturday Review
- resulting from divine providence
- being or having the nature of a god; -J.G.Frazier; ; ; -J.G.Saxe
- devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity
- appropriate to or befitting a god; ; ; -R.H.Roveref
- being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
Adj
- comparative form of divine: more divine
Examples
- The Scrabble DIVINER always seemed to know which letters his opponent held.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English divinour, from Latin dīvīnātor (“diviner; fortune-teller; soothsayer”), from dīvīnāre (“to foresee, to foretell”). Doublet of divinator. Equivalent to divine + -er.
Synonyms
divine, elysian, godlike, godly, inspired, providential, dowser, foreteller, fortune-teller, prophet, seer, soothsayer, water diviner
Scrabble Score: 11
diviner: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddiviner: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
diviner: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary