to prognosticate

Examples

• All

• The astronomical clock served not only to regularly imitate the natural motion of the sun and the heavens but also to prognosticate state affairs.

  Academic text (2002)

• Governor Bobby Jindal recently engaged in the long political tradition of prognosticating the fate of a home state professional sporting team.

  Blog text (12)

• So do you ever prognosticate or do a crystal ball or a model scenario?

  The Rich Dad Channel

• And I'm, you know, not in the habit of prognosticating about politics.

• But that does not stop the average journalist from prognosticating about the possibilities.

  Blog text (4)

• An important desired benefit of assigning a diagnosis is being able to accurately prognosticate about its likely future course.

  Academic text (2010)

• In the opening scene of the play, the king of Crete asks the Delphic oracle to prognosticate regarding peace in his kingdom.

  Academic text (1993)

• Political analysts often prognosticate about election outcomes based on current trends.

• Scientists use data from previous studies to prognosticate the effects of climate change.

• Many people try to prognosticate the future of technology by examining past innovations.

Synonyms

P

to predict

vsto prognosticate

812 3.0

To say what will happen in the future

relies especially on interpreting signs or physical evidence

A

to anticipate

vsto prognosticate

109 3.2

To expect that something will happen

uses observable signs and material evidence rather than mere expectation

F

to foresee

vsto prognosticate

77 3.9

To know or expect something before it happens

depends more on concrete signs and observable evidence

F

to forecast

vsto prognosticate

54 2.5

To say what will probably happen using information, for example about weather or business

is more about interpreting visible signs and concrete evidence

F

to foretell

vsto prognosticate

41 7.0

To say what will happen in the future

is about interpreting ordinary signs or physical evidence

F

to foreshadow

vsto prognosticate

16 6.2

To give a small sign that something will happen in the future

is used when someone reads signs and declares a future event

B

to bode

vsto prognosticate

16 7.2

To be a sign that something good or bad will happen

is more actively about interpreting such omens as evidence

P

to portend

vsto prognosticate

• Formal

13 8.4

To show that something, often bad, will probably happen

is used for predicting from ordinary signs and observable evidence

P

to presage

vsto prognosticate

• Literature

5 8.8

To show that something bad will happen

involves drawing a stated future from such signs and evidence

A

to augur

vsto prognosticate

4 8.6

To be a sign that something will happen

focuses on interpreting normal signs and material evidence

P

to prefigure

vsto prognosticate

• Literature

1 8.0

To be a sign that something will happen later

is about using signs or proof to state a future outcome

B

to betoken

vsto prognosticate

• Archaic

1 9.3

To be a sign of something

is the process of using those signs to state a future outcome

P

to previse

vsto prognosticate

• Archaic

9.9

To know something before it happens

leans on visible signs and material evidence for conclusions

F

to foreshow

vsto prognosticate

• Archaic

9.9

Predict an event from a sign or dream

instead relies on ordinary signs and empirical evidence

A

to auspicate

vsto prognosticate

• Archaic

9.9

To say what will happen by reading signs

places more weight on everyday signs and physical evidence

F

to forebode

vsto prognosticate

8.4

To seem to show that something bad will happen

is more general, predicting from observable signs or evidence

How Certain

to forecast

54 2.5

to prognosticate

• Formal

3 9.3

to predict

812 3.0

to speculate

254 4.8

to guess

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

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Etymology