prognosticating

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adjective

Of something that predicts or forecasts.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of prognosticate
adjectiveprognosticating (comparative more prognosticating, superlative most prognosticating)

comparative more prognosticating · superlative most prognosticating

  1. Of something that predicts or forecasts.
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    Two golden hours, in which the astonishing news of the intended party was revealed to Louisa, with all of its contrivances, expenses, and mitigations, so far as they were elucidated, were given and said to be "done in her honour;" but of this the young wife doubted; nor could she help shaking her head, in a prognosticating manner.

    1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 213
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APA

prognosticating. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prognosticating

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“prognosticating.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prognosticating. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prognosticating,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prognosticating.

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