PROGNOSTIC

prognostic

Noun

  1. prognosis
  2. A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
    Careful observers may foretell the hour
    (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show’r.
    While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o’er
    Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Jonathan Swift
  3. A prediction of the future.
  4. One who predicts the future.

Adjective

  1. Of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.


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