Synonyms of prognosticating

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noun

as in prediction

a declaration that something will happen in the future

because there are always unforeseen breakthroughs in every field, in the past most prognosticatings have fallen short

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prediction
• predicting
• forecasting
• forecast
• prophecy
• prognostication
• prognosis
• sign
• prognostic
• soothsaying
• foretelling
• augury
• anticipation
• cast
• auguring
• presaging
• bodement
• vaticination
• harbinger
• omen
• prevision
• portent
• prospectus
• foreknowledge
• foresight
• conjecture
• foreboding
• guess
• surmise

prognosticating

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adjective

as in predicting

Related Words

• predicting
• forecasting
• divining
• soothsaying
• foretelling
• wondrous
• foreseeing
• fortune-telling
• prophesying
• stupendous
• extraordinary
• presaging
• astonishing
• miraculous
• portentous
• foreknowing
• amazing
• sublime
• astounding
• metaphysical
• awesome
• marvelous
• charming
• enchanting
• stunning
• preternatural
• bewitching
• conjuring
• paranormal
• fabulous
• unearthly
• supernormal
• wiling
• magic
• enchanted
• spellbound
• numinous
• magical
• bewitched
• mystic
• occult
• weird

Dissimilar Words

• usual
• normal
• ordinary
• routine
• prosaic
• everyday
• commonplace
• unremarkable
• workaday
• unexceptional
• run-of-the-mill

prognosticating

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verb

present participle of prognosticate

as in reading

to tell of or describe beforehand

using current trends to prognosticate what the workplace of the future will be like

Synonyms & Similar Words

• predicting
• reading
• forecasting
• anticipating
• foretelling
• prophesying
• presaging
• auguring
• warning
• announcing
• calling
• foreseeing
• promising
• cautioning
• vaticinating
• alerting
• forewarning
• divining
• portending
• boding
• foreboding
• declaring
• proclaiming
• heralding
• foreknowing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reporting
• relating
• describing
• telling
• recounting
• reciting
• narrating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of prognosticating

Noun

After all the strategizing and prognosticating, what no one can predict is which films will actually connect once audiences arrive. — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Verb

Some 5,000 actresses were considered amid months of hysterical media prognosticating on who would wear the invisible halo next. — Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

The new rule of thumb when prognosticating about the NBA trade deadline is to never say never — Luka Doncic is a Los Angeles Laker now — but the Nuggets are just too good to mess around with their playoff rotation over a tax bill. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026

Bank of America Securities analyst Robert Ohmes just downgraded Target from hold to sell, prognosticating another 10-15% share drop. — Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025