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prognosticate 音標拼音: [pr ,ɑgn'ɑstək ,et] vt. 預知,預言,預測 預知,預言,預測 prognosticate v 1: make a prediction about; tell in advance; " Call the outcome of an election" [ synonym: { predict}, { foretell}, { prognosticate}, { call}, { forebode}, { anticipate}, { promise}] 2: indicate by signs; " These signs bode bad news" [ synonym: { bode}, { portend}, { auspicate}, { prognosticate}, { omen}, { presage}, { betoken}, { foreshadow}, { augur}, { foretell}, { prefigure}, { forecast}, { predict}] Prognosticate \ Prog* nos" ti* cate\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Prognosticated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Prognosticating}.] [ See { Prognostic}.] To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father' s fate. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage; predict; prophesy. [ 1913 Webster] 43 Moby Thesaurus words for " prognosticate": adumbrate, announce, augur, bet, betoken, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, fortune- tell, gamble, guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, risk, signal, soothsay, speculate, take a chance, tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate
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