Meanings
- not comparableIn prognostic terms.
Some began to whisper that prognostically she'd passed her prime.
2005 April 8, Michael Miner, “BATgirl Returns; Pioneer's New Frontier”, in Chicago Reader1 more example
The severe forms of this disorder, which may extend over weeks and months, are liable to be confused with progressive deteriorating processes, especially so because those symptoms which were wont to be considered by many as positively unfavorable prognostically, may be found here in very deceptive imitations.
1916, Bernard Glueck, Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*pér
- Proto-Indo-European*pró
- Ancient Greekπρό (pró)
- Ancient Greekπρο- (pro-)
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵneh₃-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵneh₃tis
- Ancient Greekγνῶσις (gnôsis)
- Ancient Greekγνωστῐκός (gnōstĭkós)
- Ancient Greekπρο- (pro-)
- Ancient Greekγνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs)
- Ancient Greekπρόγνωσῐς (prógnōsĭs)
- Ancient Greekπρογνωστῐκός (prognōstĭkós)
- Medieval Latinprognosticus
- Englishprognostic
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishprognostically
From prognostic + -ally.
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