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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun prognostic has 1 sense
- prognostic(n = noun.event) omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication - a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" is a kind of augury, foretoken, preindication, sign
has particulars: auspice, foreboding, death knell
Derived form adjective prognostic1
Adjective prognostic has 1 sense
- prognostic(s = adj.all) predictive, prognosticative - of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions; Array Derived forms noun prognosis2, noun prognosis1, noun prognostic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
prognostic, a. [Gr. prognwstiko`n. See Prognosis.].
Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs. [1913 Webster]
- That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction. [1913 Webster]"That choice would inevitably be considered by the country
as a prognostic of the highest import." [1913 Webster] - A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease. Parr. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Sign; omen; presage; token; indication.
prognostic, v. t.
To prognosticate. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
prognostic, n. & adj.
--n.
1 (often foll. by of) an advance indication or omen, esp. of the course of a disease etc.
2 a prediction; a forecast.
--adj. foretelling; predictive (prognostic of a good result).
--n.
1 (often foll. by of) an advance indication or omen, esp. of the course of a disease etc.
2 a prediction; a forecast.
--adj. foretelling; predictive (prognostic of a good result).
Derivative
prognostically adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF pronostique f. L prognosticum f. Gk prognostikon neut. of prognostikos (as PROGNOSIS)
THESAURUS
prognostic
apocalyptic, augural, auguring, augury, boding, divinatory, fatidic, forecasting, forerunning, foreseeing, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretelling, foretokening, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical, heavy with meaning, indicative, intuitive, mantic, meaningful, monitory, omen, oracular, portent, precursive, precursory, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, preindicative, premonitory, presage, presageful, presaging, presignificative, presignifying, prognosticative, prophetic, sibyllic, sibylline, significant, vaticinal, vaticinatory, warning, weather-wiseROGET THESAURUS
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Omen
N omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice, sign, harbinger, yule candle, bird of ill omen, signs of the times, gathering clouds, warning, prefigurement, ill-boding, auspicium melioris aevi.
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