Forecast vs Prognostic - What's the difference?
forecast | prognostic |
To estimate how something will be in the future.
(obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
* Milton
An estimation of a future condition.
A prediction of the weather.
:* What's the forecast for tomorrow?
(rare, medicine) prognosis
A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
A prediction of the future.
* Macaulay
One who predicts the future.
As nouns the difference between forecast and prognostic
is that forecast is an estimation of a future condition while prognostic is (rare|medicine) prognosis.As a verb forecast
is to estimate how something will be in the future.As an adjective prognostic is
of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.forecast
English
(wikipedia forecast)Verb
- to forecast the weather
- to forecast a storm
- If it happen as I did forecast .
Noun
(en noun)External links
* *prognostic
English
Alternative forms
* prognostick (obsolete)Synonyms
* foretelling * predictiveNoun
(en noun)- (Parr)
- 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
- The choice of a successor was no light matter. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.