prognostic's Usage Examples:

Mick asked about the weather forecast and Fred responded that in Ouray, any prognostication was speculative and definitely regional—for real accuracy, one looked out the window or guessed.

his tribe of paltry, rapacious and embarrassing Corsicans; his admirably subservient generals; his selfish ministers, docile agents, apprehensive of the future, who for fourteen long years felt a prognostication of defeat and discounted the inevitable catastrophe.

gloomy prognostications but no more.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of a technique for peritoneal lavage used in Birmingham.

Residual cancer could not reliably be predicted or discriminated from necrosis or mature teratoma by the prognostic criteria.

The Polynesians set up sticks to see if the warriors they stood for were to fall in battle; on Hallowe'en in our own country the behaviour of nuts and other objects thrown into the fire is held to prognosticate the lot of the person to whom they have been assigned.

The usual prognostication of future distinction is attributed in the case of More to Cardinal Morton, " who would often tell the nobles sitting at table with him, where young Thomas waited on him, whosoever liveth to trie it shall see this child prove a notable and rare man.

prognostic significance of the genetic markers was also assessed.

The aim of this study was to clarify the prognostic significance of perioperative blood transfusion following oesophagectomy in a specialist center.

The stars are held, not only to prognosticate the future but also to influence it; the child born when Mars is in the ascendant will be war-like; Venus has to do with love; the sign of the Lion presides over places where wild beasts are found.

""At Rome," Montaigne tells us, "a large sum of money was lost on the Change by this prognostication of our ruin.

Synonyms:

predictive, prophetic, prophetical, prognosticative,

Antonyms:

unprophetic, fire, negativeness, negativity, positiveness,