a statement made about the future. à¦ªà§à¦°à§à¦¬à¦²à¦à§à¦·à¦£ foreboding, presage, portent, omen, prognostication, sign à¦ªà§à¦°à§à¦¬à¦¨à¦¿à¦¦à¦°à§à¦¶à¦¨ foretoken, prognostication. a statement made about the future When the Senator was asked about where the negotiations would lead, he said that any guess he could make would be an unreliable prognostication. the action of prophesying future events. \\"an unprecedented amount of soul-searching and prognostication\\" a prophecy. plural noun: prognostications \\"these gloomy prognostications proved to be unfounded\\". synonyms: prediction, forecast, prophecy, divination, prognosis, projection; rarevaticination, auspication, prognostic. Definition of Prognosticate to forecast the future Examples of Prognosticate in a sentence Using computer technology, meteorologists attempt to prognosticate the future. The sports writer believes he can prognosticate the Super Bowl champions based on last year\\'s statistics. Every year, many foolish people pay fortunetellers to prognosticate their futures. Today your doctor will be performing your annual physical in order to prognosticate your future health. After viewing some of the financial indexes, a few pessimistic economists began to prognosticate an economic recession. Bookies make a living out of people\\'s failures to prognosticate the outcome of a game or event. According to legend, there are a number of women who can look at tealeaves and prognosticate the number of children a woman will have. It is hard to fool my parents because they always seem to be able to prognosticate my actions even before I do them. When Rachel looked up at the sky, she saw dark clouds that appeared to prognosticate the end of her beach weekend. Even in court, the con artist swore he was a psychic who could prognosticate the future.