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prognostic | prognostically |

As an adjective prognostic

is of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.

As a noun prognostic

is (rare|medicine) prognosis.

As an adverb prognostically is

in prognostic terms.

prognostic

English

Alternative forms

* prognostick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.

    • Synonyms

    * foretelling * predictive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, medicine) prognosis
    • (Parr)
  • A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
    • 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
  • A prediction of the future.
  • * Macaulay
    • 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.
  • One who predicts the future.

    • Synonyms

    * (sign) indication, sign, omen, foretelling, prediction

    Related terms

    * prognostatic * prognosis * prognosticable * prognosticate ----

    prognostically

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In prognostic terms.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Bernard Glueck, title=Studies in Forensic Psychiatry, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The severe forms of this disorder, which may extend over weeks and months, are liable to be confused with progressive deteriorating processes, especially so because those symptoms which were wont to be considered by many as positively unfavorable prognostically , may be found here in very deceptive imitations. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2005, date=April 8, author=Michael Miner, title=BATgirl Returns; Pioneer's New Frontier, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Some began to whisper that prognostically she'd passed her prime. }}