Prognosticator vs Foreteller - What's the difference?
prognosticator | foreteller | Synonyms |
One who prognosticates or makes predictions; one who forecasts or guesses
:Plenty of prognosticators try to forecast the ups and downs of the market.
*{{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 26
, author=Genevieve Koski
, title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe
, work=The Onion AV Club
Someone who foretells.
* 2010 July 16, Laurie Winer, "
Foreteller is a synonym of prognosticator.
As nouns the difference between prognosticator and foreteller
is that prognosticator is one who prognosticates or makes predictions; one who forecasts or guesses while foreteller is someone who foretells.prognosticator
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts. }} English agent nouns
foreteller
English
Noun
(en noun)Born to Check Mail" (book review of Hamlet's Blackberry'' by William Powers), ''New York Times (retrieved 24 Nov 2011):
- But Powers, a former staff writer at The Washington Post who has written extensively on media and technology, is not simply an earnest foreteller of doom.
