Prognosticate Synonyms

prŏg-nŏstĭ-kāt
To tell about or make known (future events) in advance, especially by means of special knowledge or inference
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. call
  2. forecast
  3. foretell
  4. predict
  5. project
To give an indication of something in advance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. foretell
  2. augur
  3. predict
  4. foreshadow
  5. forecast
  6. portend
  7. bode
  8. forebode
  9. presage
  10. prefigure
  11. adumbrate
  12. divine
  13. forerun
  14. foretoken
  15. auspicate
  16. omen
  17. call
  18. betoken
  19. prophesy
  20. anticipate
  21. promise
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To predict according to present indications or signs; foretell.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. predict

Prognosticate Sentence Examples

  • We find moreover as emi-scientific conception of the basis of divination; the whole of nature is linked together; just as the variations in the height of a column of mercury serve to foretell the weather, so the flight of birds or behaviour of cattle may help to prognosticate its changes; for the uncultured it is merely a step to the assumption that animals know things which are hidden from man.

  • The stars are held, not only to prognosticate the future but also to influence it; the child born when Mars is in the ascendant will be war-like; Venus has to do with love; the sign of the Lion presides over places where wild beasts are found.

  • The Polynesians set up sticks to see if the warriors they stood for were to fall in battle; on Hallowe'en in our own country the behaviour of nuts and other objects thrown into the fire is held to prognosticate the lot of the person to whom they have been assigned.

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