misprognosticate

present singular third person misprognosticates · participle present misprognosticating · participle past misprognosticated · past misprognosticated

1. ambitransitiveTo make an incorrect prediction.

   Misprognosticating pundits — most famously ABC's Sam Donaldson, who declared days into the scandal: " This thing is not going to drag out ” —remain unbowed.

   1999, U.S. News & World Report - Volume 126, page 36

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   […] were Victims of a basic confusion between religion and nationalism which led them to misinterpret past Jewish history, to misunderstand present Jewish needs, and to misprognosticate […]

   1976 Winter, Janet Koffler O'Dea, “Israel With and Without Religion: An Appreciation of Kaufmann's" Golah ve-Nekhar”, in Judaism, volume 25, number 1

   On the other hand, if you use a lower grade of stimulation (i.E. 1% citric acid) and the same critical value for choosing treatment or not, you will still misprognosticate 2 patients but treat no fewer than 6 patients ( i.e. almost 16 % ) unnecessarily, and wrongly believe that you have found a very good kind of treatment, as can be seen in Fig. 7.

   1977, Ugo Fisch, Facial Nerve Surgery, page 141

   My point, which has been entirely lost or misplaced, is that no one can predict the future, not even I can, which is why I said: "I expected inflation with the post 2008 printing of money." Listening to wild voices in the wilderness made me misprognosticate the state of the economy.

   2016 August 24, Denny Schlesinger, “Investment Analysis Clubs / Macro Economic Trends and Risks: Re: Coming Hyperinflation”, in The Motley Fool, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2022