Prognostic

Definition: Prognostic

Prognostic

Adjective

1. Of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions.

Noun

1. A sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prognostic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Prognostic

Omen

Noun: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign; (indication); harbinger; (precursor); yule candle.

Crosswords: Prognostic

French (forecast, prognosis).

Books

• Acute Leukemias VIII: Prognostic Factors and Treatment Strategies (Hamatologie Und Bluttransfusion, 40.) (reference)

• Cancer therapy : prognostic factors and criteria of response (reference)

• Oral Pathology: Actual Diagnostic and Prognostic & Prognostic Aspects (reference)

• PROGNO 1.0: Prognostic Models in Fertility Practice (reference)

• Prognostic and Predictive Value of p53 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Race appears to be a prognostic but not predictive factor. (references)

The prognostic implications of these distinctions remain unclear. (references)

If people want prognostic information, they should talk with the doctor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "prognostic": fixed time prognostic chart ♦ prognostic analysis ♦ prognostic chart ♦ prognostic factor ♦ prognostic surface chart ♦ prognostic upper air chart. Additional references.

Albanian

parashikim (anticipation, contemplation, dope, foreboding, forecast, foresight, precaution, prediction, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, vision), paralajmërues (admonitory, augural, cautionary, Herald, monitory, precursory, premonitory), paralajmërim (admonishment, admonition, caution, exhortation, forerunner, notice, portent, premonition, presage, tip off, warning). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تكهن (augur, auspice, divine, forecast, foretell, omen, predict, prediction, prognosticate, prognostication, surmise, tip), ‏إشارة (allusion, cue, denotation, forerunner, gesture, hint, index, indication, innuendo, mark, motion, pitch, reference, sign, signal, tip off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

знамение (auspice, foretoken, knell, omen, portent, presage, sacrament, sign), предсказващ, предсказване (auspice, divination, foresight, prediction, prognostication), предсказание (forecast, oracle, presage, prophecy), предвестник (forerunner, harbinger, messenger, portent, precursor), предвещаващ, предзнаменование (adumbration, auspice, portent, prognostication), поличба (augury, auspice, foreboding, omen, portent, prognostication, sign). (various references)

Chinese 

预断 (Prejudge, Prejudged, Prejudging). (various references)

Czech

prognostický. (various references)

French

présage (presage), signe avant-coureur. (various references)

German

prognostisch. (various references)

Greek 

προγνωστικόσ (previsional, prognostical), προγωνικόσ (prognostical). (various references)

Hungarian

jóslati, jövendölõ (predictive), elõrejelzõ (forecaster, precursory), elõjel (augury, auscultation, bode, foreshadow, foretoken, harbinger, portent, precursor, premonition, presage, prognostication). (various references)

Italian

pronostico (forecast, prognostication), prognostico, di prognosi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

後遺症 (after-effect, prognostic symptoms). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"ういしょう (after-effect, prognostic symptoms). (various references)

Manx

faaishnyssagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ognosticpray

Portuguese

prognóstico (forecast, omen, prognosis, prognostication, prophecy), presságio (augury, bodement, boding, earnest, foreboding, foretoken, indication, omen, portent, premonition, presage, prognostication, threat), prenúncio (presage, shadow, threat), sintomas (mark), agouro (bodement, boding, foreboding, foretoken, indication, omen, portent, presage). (various references)

Romanian

pronostic (spot), care face prognoze. (various references)

Russian 

служащий предвестником, предсказание (forecast, oracle, presage, vaticination, weird), предвестие (foretoken). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prognostički, predznak (auspice, foretoken, harbinger, omen, petrel, portent, presage, prognostication, sign), simptom (symptom). (various references)

Spanish

pronóstico (forecast, outlook, prognosis, prognostication). (various references)

Swedish

prognostisk. (various references)

Turkish

prognoz ile ilgili, sonucu önceden haber veren, kehanet (augury, denouncement, divination, omen, oracle, oracular, portent, prediction, presage, prognostication, prophecy, second sight, Sibylline, soothsaying, vaticination), işaret (augury, badge, character, chop, clew, clue, cue, device, distinguishing mark, earmark, ensign, foretoken, gesture, glimpse, graph, harbinger, hint, index, indication, indicator, landmark, logo, logotype, marker, note, pip, prognostication, representation, sign, signal, signature, symbol, symptom, token, touch, trace), belirti (clinic, evidence, foretoken, glimpse, impression, indication, Mark, note, prognostication, sign, spark, spark of, stamp, strain, streak, symptom, tinge, token, trace). (various references)

Ukrainian

симптоматичний (diagnostic, symptomatic), ознака (augury, badge, bodement, character, characteristic, diagnostic, indication, note, omen, ostent, portent, prophet, sign, testimonial, vestige), пророчий (fatidic, fatidical, oracular, oraculous, precursive, precursory, predictive, prophetic, prophetical, vatic, vatical), провісницький, провісник (anticipator, forerunner, harbinger, nunciate, outrunner, precursor, predictor, prognosticator, prophesier, warning), прикмета (augury, foretoken, omen, ostent, prognostication, prognosticator, token), передбачення (auspice, forecast, foreknowledge, foresight, precognition, prediction, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostication). (various references)

Vietnamese 

triệu chứng (symptom), tiên lượng, điềm báo trước (fore-runner, premonition). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prognostic": prognosticate, prognosticated, prognosticates, prognosticating, prognostication, prognostications, prognosticative, prognosticator, prognosticators, prognostics. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prognostic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prognastic, pronostic. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: scrooping.

-2 letters: coopting, porticos, portions, positron, protonic, roosting, scooping, scooting, scorpion, sorption, spooring, sporting, stooping, trooping.

-3 letters: cistron, citrons, cogitos, consort, cooping, copings, cortins, costing, crotons, gnostic, gosport, nitroso, octrois, opsonic, options, pocosin, porcino, portico, porting, portion, posting, potions, prosing, protons, roosing, rooting, scoping, scoring, sooting, sorting, sporing, stoping, storing, torsion, trigons, trogons.

+1 letter: prognostics.

+2 letters: outcroppings.

+3 letters: compurgations, counterposing, glycoproteins, precognitions, progestogenic, prognosticate.

+4 letters: cotransporting, counterpoising, prognosticated, prognosticates, prognosticator.

+5 letters: crossopterygian, pharmacognostic, prognosticating, prognostication, prognosticative, prognosticators.