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Definitions for prognosticate
prɒgˈnɒs tɪˌkeɪtprog·nos·ti·cate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promiseverb

    make a prediction about; tell in advance

    "Call the outcome of an election"

  2. bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predictverb

    indicate by signs

    "These signs bode bad news"

Wiktionary

  1. prognosticateverb

    To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.

    Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.

  2. prognosticateverb

    To presage, betoken.

    The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.

  3. Etymology: From prognosticare; see prognostic for more.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Prognosticateverb

    To foretell; to foreshow.

    Etymology: from prognostick.

    He had now outlived the day, which his tutor Sandford had prognosticated upon his nativity he would not outlive. Edward Hyde.

    Unskill’d in schemes by planets to foreshow,
    I neither will, nor can prognosticate,
    To the young gaping heir, his father’s fate. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. prognosticate

    Prognosis is a doctor's prediction about a disease.

ChatGPT

  1. prognosticate

    To prognosticate means to predict or forecast something in the future based on present conditions or indications. It often relates to using information or knowledge to foretell outcomes in various fields like weather forecasting, financial markets, disease outcomes in medicine, etc.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Prognosticateverb

    to indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of prognosticate in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of prognosticate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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