prognosticate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make a prediction about; tell in advance
    predict; anticipate; forebode; foretell; call; promise.
    • Call the outcome of an election
  2. verb indicate by signs
    omen; prefigure; auspicate; bode; betoken; portend; foreshadow; predict; foretell; augur; forecast; presage.
    • These signs bode bad news

WordNet

Prog*nos"ti*cate transitive verb
Etymology
See Prognostic.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Prognosticated ; present participle & verbal noun Prognosticating
Definitions
  1. To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. Burke.
    I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden.
    Syn. -- To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage; predict; prophesy.

Webster 1913