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Prognosticator vs Prognosticatory - What's the difference?

prognosticator | prognosticatory |

As a noun prognosticator

is one who prognosticates or makes predictions; one who forecasts or guesses.

As an adjective prognosticatory is

that prognosticates or makes predictions about the future; predictive.

prognosticator

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 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

    prognosticatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That prognosticates or makes predictions about the future; predictive.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 339:
  • *:Most of the almanac-makers had gone over to Copernicanism by this time, but it made no difference to their prognosticatory activities.