| 单词 | prognostication |
| 释义 | prognostication (once / 10278 pages) n A prognostication is a prediction about the future. If you make gloomy prognostications about how much traffic there will be on the way home, you'll be pleasantly surprised to find the drive fast and easy. Use the noun prognostication when someone's making a forecast or a guess about upcoming events. Your prognostication about whether or not it will rain tomorrow might lead to your family's picnic being cancelled. Another way to use the word is to mean a sign or portent: "I hope that black cat isn't a prognostication of bad luck!" The Latin root, prognostica, means "sign to forecast weather," and it comes from the Greek prognostikos, "foreknowing." WORD FAMILYprognostication: prognostications+/prognosis: prognoses, prognostic, prognosticate/prognostic: prognostically, prognostics/prognosticate: prognosticated, prognosticates, prognosticating, prognostication, prognosticative, prognosticator/prognosticative: nonprognosticative/prognosticator: prognosticators USAGE EXAMPLESWhether or not these dire prognostications prove correct, the fact they are being voiced is alarming. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) Another lesson of the 2016 election: prognostication is a fool’s game. The New Yorker(Dec 02, 2016) Kayak, which searches multiple sources for airfares, offers price advice on trips where it has enough data to make a prognostication. Wall Street Journal(Nov 30, 2016) 1n a sign of something about to happen Syn|Hypo|Hyper omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic auspice a favorable omen forebodingan unfavorable omen death knellan omen of death or destruction augury, foretoken, preindication, sign an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come 2n a statement made about the future Syn|Hypo|Hyper forecasting, foretelling, prediction extropy the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe fortunetellingthe practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) horoscopea prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets meteorology, weather forecastingpredicting what the weather will be forecast, prognosisa prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop divination, prophecya prediction uttered under divine inspiration oraclea prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible financial forecasta forecast of the expected financial position and the results of operations and cash flows based on expected conditions weather forecast, weather outlooka forecast of the weather statement a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc 3n knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) Syn|Hypo|Hyper prophecy, vaticination crystal gazing staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events divination, foretelling, fortune telling, soothsayingthe art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means arithmancydivination by means of numbers dowse, dowsing, rhabdomancysearching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod geomancydivination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another) hydromancydivination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides) lithomancydivination by means of stones or stone talismans necromancyconjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying oneiromancydivination through the interpretation of dreams onomancydivination by the letters of a name chirology, chiromancy, palm reading, palmistrytelling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand pyromancydivination by fire or flames anticipation, prediction, prevision the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) |
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