Forerunner vs Prognostic - What's the difference?
forerunner | prognostic | Synonyms |
a runner at the front or ahead
(sport) by extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
a precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead
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a forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor
(philately) a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own
something that introduces a part of the properties offered by some later thing.
(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.
Forerunner is a synonym of prognostic.
As nouns the difference between forerunner and prognostic
is that forerunner is a runner at the front or ahead while prognostic is (rare|medicine) prognosis.As an adjective prognostic is
of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.forerunner
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Noun
(en noun)- Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.
prognostic
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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.