Word Meanings - PROGNOSTICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. Burke. I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden. Syn. -- To foreshow;

Additional info about word: PROGNOSTICATE

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. Burke. I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden. Syn. -- To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage; predict; prophesy.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROGNOSTICATE)

• Bode
• Foretell
• betoken
• foreshadow
• presage
• predict
• prophesy
• promise
• forebode
• herald
• announce
• prognosticate
• portend
• augur
• Predict
• preindicate
• foreshow
• forewarn
• Portend
• Indicate
• threaten
• forbode
• Signify
• purport
• mean
• represent
• indicate
• communicate
• denote
• declare
• utter

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROGNOSTICATE)

• Recal
• suppress
• repress
• hush
• stifle
• check
• swallow

Related words: (words related to PROGNOSTICATE)

• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• 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
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• HERALD
  An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer
• PURPORTLESS
  Without purport or meaning.
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• UTTERLY
  In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
• UTTERNESS
  The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• AUGUR
  An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences. 2. One who foretells events by omens;
• DECLAREMENT
  Declaration.
• FOREWARN
  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• PORTEND
  to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.