| 单词 | prognosticate |
| 释义 | prognosticate (once / 5106 pages) v To prognosticate means to predict something or at least hint at what will happen in the future. When a lot of natural disasters start happening close together, you might prognosticate that the world is ending, a prediction that's actually thousands of years old. From the Latin prognosticāre, meaning "make a prediction," the verb prognosticate means to foretell or predict what is coming. While a fortuneteller or palm reader might claim special powers for seeing into the future, you can prognosticate by looking at real evidence and making a reasonable conclusion about how events will unfold. Sometimes, though, what you prognosticate from a dream or a fortune-cookie message ends up happening too, which is less reasonable but pretty neat — unless the world really does end. WORD FAMILYprognosticate: prognosticated, prognosticates, prognosticating, prognostication, prognosticative, prognosticator+/prognosis: prognoses, prognostic, prognosticate/prognostic: prognostically, prognostics/prognostication: prognostications/prognosticative: nonprognosticative/prognosticator: prognosticators USAGE EXAMPLESThe May street vacation outcome was widely considered to be a surprise, so prognosticating at this point seems silly. Seattle Times(Nov 15, 2016) And that is one bit of prognosticating that actually came true. Time(Nov 09, 2016) We just kept checking our favorite prognosticating sites, and feeling reassured, even though everyone knows that poll results are not votes. Washington Post(Nov 09, 2016) 1v make a prediction about; tell in advance Syn|Hypo|Hyper anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise read interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior outguess, second-guessattempt to anticipate or predict augurpredict from an omen bet, wagermaintain with or as if with a bet calculate, forecastpredict in advance prophesy, vaticinatepredict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration scrydivine by gazing into crystals vaticinateforetell through or as if through the power of prophecy enlighten, irradiategive spiritual insight to; in religion guess, hazard, pretend, venture put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation 2v indicate by signs Syn|Hypo|Hyper augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage threaten to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain" foreshowforetell by divine inspiration bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal be a signal for or a symptom of |
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