prescient
PRESH-ee-untadjMeaning knowing or sensing what will happen before it does
Memory hook PRE + SCI: knows BEFORE. On a cloudless morning, Granny Mae packs an umbrella; by noon it pours, and she is the only one dry. She was prescient.
Her prescient warning about the leaky roof saved our books from the rain.
In context Grandpa’s advice that everyone should learn to type seemed odd in 1975, but it proved prescient; within twenty years, nearly every office job required a keyboard.
Similar farsighted, foresighted, prophetic, visionary
Opposite shortsighted, unaware
From Latin praescire, “to know beforehand”: prae- (before) + scire (to know).