What does prognosticate mean?
Definitions for prognosticate
prɒgˈnɒs tɪˌkeɪtprog·nos·ti·cate
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Princeton's WordNet
predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promiseverb
make a prediction about; tell in advance
"Call the outcome of an election"
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predictverb
indicate by signs
"These signs bode bad news"
Wiktionary
prognosticateverb
To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.
prognosticateverb
To presage, betoken.
The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.
Etymology: From prognosticare; see prognostic for more.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
prognosticate
Prognosis is a doctor's prediction about a disease.
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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
Prognosticateverb
to indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of prognosticate in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of prognosticate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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