prognosticate
Foretell future events
To prognosticate is to predict or forecast, especially based on present signs or symptoms.
The word carries a formal or technical tone, often appearing in medical or scholarly contexts: The doctor prognosticated a full recovery.
It can sound deliberately pompous when used for ordinary predictions: He prognosticated rain based on his aching knee.
Declare future outcomes
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- foretellPredict future events
- foreseePredict future events
- anticipateExpect beforehand
project · extrapolate · estimate · outlook · trend · projection · modeling · scenario
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- soothsayingForetelling future events
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
tarot · astrology · horoscope · psychic · sibyl · divination · crystal ball · palmistry
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- presageIndicate beforehand
- signMark conveying information
- warningAlert about danger
foreboding · premonition · foreshadowing · auspice · augur · forewarning · ill-boding · foretoken
Guess from limited facts
- hypothesizePropose a tentative explanation
- theorizeForm explanatory suppositions
- surmiseGuess from incomplete information
- postulateAssumed starting point
speculate · guess · infer · deduce · extrapolate · suppose · assume · reason
Divinely inspired messenger
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- messiahProphesied liberator figure
- NostradamusRenaissance physician-prophet from France
Cassandra · Delphi · biblical · visionary · scripture · end times · fulfillment · Isaiah
predict
Declare future outcomes
anticipate · project · extrapolate · estimate · outlook · trend · projection · modeling · scenario · trajectory
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- soothsayingForetelling future events
clairvoyance · tarot · astrology · horoscope · psychic · sibyl · divination · crystal ball · palmistry · scrying
portent
Sign of future calamity
warning · foreboding · premonition · foreshadowing · auspice · augur · forewarning · ill-boding · foretoken · herald
conjecture
Guess from limited facts
- hypothesizePropose a tentative explanation
- theorizeForm explanatory suppositions
- surmiseGuess from incomplete information
postulate · speculate · guess · infer · deduce · extrapolate · suppose · assume · reason · ponder
prophet
Divinely inspired messenger
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- messiahProphesied liberator figure
Nostradamus · Cassandra · Delphi · biblical · visionary · scripture · end times · fulfillment · Isaiah · Revelation
- fancy wordsgrandiloquent, magniloquent, sesquipedalian, pulchritudinous, tintinnabulation
- foretellingpredict, prophesy, foretell, foresee, forecast
prognostication, prognosticator, prognosticating, prognostications, prognosticators, prognosticated, prognosticates