prognosticating
Foretelling future events
Prognosticating is predicting or forecasting future events, often with an air of expertise or authority.
The word carries a slightly formal or dramatic tone: Economic analysts spend their careers prognosticating market trends.
It can also suggest dubious fortune-telling: The psychic made a living prognosticating for gullible clients.
Foretelling of future events
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- omensProphetic signs or warnings
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- soothsayingForetelling future events
astrology · tarot · clairvoyance · oracle · seer · sibyl · auspices · portent
Forecast of coming events
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- outlookAttitude toward the future
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- trend analysisExamining directional data shifts
modeling · extrapolation · estimation · speculation · conjecture · anticipation · foresight · precognition
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- omensProphetic signs or warnings
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
soothsaying · astrology · tarot · clairvoyance · oracle · seer · sibyl · auspices · portent · presage
prediction
Forecast of coming events
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- outlookAttitude toward the future
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
trend analysis · modeling · extrapolation · estimation · speculation · conjecture · anticipation · foresight · precognition · premonition
- forecasting methodspredicting, projecting, estimating, anticipating, extrapolating
prognosticatingrecounting
Narrating events from memory
recollecting · remembering · reminiscing · chronicling · historicizing
prognosticatingconfirming
Establishing truth of something
verifying · documenting · attesting · certifying · recording