prognosis

prognosis

noun

Definition of PROGNOSIS

a declaration that something will happen in the future <the securities analyst's prognosis for the stock market in the new year>

Synonyms auguring, augury, bodement, cast, forecast, forecasting, foretelling, predicting, presaging, prognosis, prognostic, prognosticating, prognostication, prophecy (also prophesy), soothsaying, vaticination

Related Words foreboding, harbinger, omen, portent, prevision, prospectus, sign; anticipation, foreknowledge; foresight; conjecture, guess, surmise