Word Meanings - PROGNOSTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROGNOSTIC)

• Adumbration
• Shadow
• foreshadowing
• presage
• prognostic
• delineation
• premonition
• hint
• sketch
• prototype
• suggestion
• Indication
• Sign
• token
• manifestation
• evidence
• demonstration
• note
• symptom
• proof
• mark
• Presage
• Omen
• indication
• Token
• memorial
• expression
• symbol
• emblem
• prefiguration
• badge
• type
• wonder
• signal

Related words: (words related to PROGNOSTIC)

• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• BADGELESS
  Having no badge. Bp. Hall.
• PROGNOSTICABLE
  Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
• PROGNOSTICATOR
  One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• BADGE
  A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. (more info) AS. beág, beáh, bracelet, collar, crown, OS b in comp., AS. b to bow, 1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person;
• BADGERING
  1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
• WONDERSTRUCK
  Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• WONDER
  Etym: 1. To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Swift. We cease to wonder at what we understand. Johnson.
• SYMBOLISM
  The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system
• DELINEATION
  1. The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from
• EMBLEMIZE
  To represent by an emblem; to emblematize.
• MEMORIAL DAY
  A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the
• WONDERFUL
  Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
• TOKENLESS
  Without a token.
• PROOF-PROOF
  Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.
• EVIDENCER
  One whi gives evidence.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• PLOT-PROOF
  Secure against harm by plots. Shak.
• BLOCK SIGNAL
  One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.