prognosticate – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
prognosticate
v.
diagnose; divine, prophesy, presage; foresee, predict, foretell
Prognosis (disambiguation)
Prognosis is a doctor's prediction about a disease.
prognosticate
Verb
1. make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
(synonym) predict, foretell, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
(hypernym) guess, venture, pretend, hazard
(hyponym) read
(derivation) prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication
2. indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
(synonym) bode, portend, auspicate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
(hypernym) bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
(hyponym) threaten
(derivation) omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy
Prognosticate
(v. t.)
To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
prognosticate
Synonyms and related words:
adumbrate, announce, augur, bet, betoken, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, fortune-tell, gamble, guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, risk, signal, soothsay, speculate, take a chance, tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
