Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A foreknower or foreteller of future events by present signs; a soothsayer.
Wiktionary
- n. One who prognosticates or makes predictions; one who forecasts or guesses
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
Examples
“You may recall a certain prognosticator doing some fancy prognosticating on Friday.”
“What is magical about Punxsutawney is not just the movie or the mythical 127-year-old marmot known as the "prognosticator of prognosticators.”
“Seated next to Clinton on her first visit to the kingdom, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal called the chief US diplomat a good "prognosticator," adding he was inclined to believe her warnings on the Revolutionary Guard.”
“You'd think a record like that would inject even the most self-confident prognosticator with a little humility.”
The Huffington Post: Richard (RJ) Eskow: Ben Bernanke Wants Your Social Security Money
“Boehner was being almost perfectly accurate. 99% accurate, at least, and according to at least one respected national political prognosticator.”
“The threatened eruption never materialized, and his already high prestige as a prognosticator rose.”
“The King's Speech" won best picture, as pretty much every prognosticator predicted.”
The Washington Post: The Oscars and the foregone conclusions syndrome
“Weather Underground is usually pretty reliable as a prognosticator.”
“Whatever talents he had as a political prognosticator, his most profitable skill was his thorough understanding of the media and its insatiable appetite for glib, provocative insults.”
“It is sometimes called Dr. Copper by fans because it's seen as a better prognosticator of the economy than academics with Ph.D.s.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘prognosticator’.
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POL - presidential debates
Some of the catchwords of several presidential debates (Obama-Romney 2012 Denver debate's transcript fully included)
preexist, crosstalk, figure skate, preexisting, spending cut, preconceive, zinger, excruciate, ask over, miniaturize, food stamp, Medicare and 150 more...
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discontinued analog cyborg subroutines
my first list
analogue, analog, cyborg, adaptation, survival, accessibility, analog cyborg, brain, brain damage, trauma, traumatic brain i..., tbi and 15 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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So little time...
i really need to bulk up my vocabulary
coccydynia, maudlin, etiolate, cenotaph, chthonic, orotund, eclat, spendthrift, incendiary, corpulent, parsimonious, bescumber and 91 more...
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uncleosbert's Words
omphalaskepsis, gravid, steatopygian, marmalade, triffid, scurrilous, kith, lilliputian, slunk, snailular, milquetoast, elephantine and 191 more...
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Queue 01
deft, agnosticism, tract, abstinence, brood, repugnant, dispositive, pyrrhic, apoplectic, canard, shiv, moocher and 56 more...
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Paste Practice
microbe, lackadaisical, avocation, hapless, fastidious, flamboyant, adroit, laudatory, reticent, admonitory, vociferous, tepid and 25 more...
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Extrasensory Individuals
Those who connect with spirits, predict the future, and read our minds.
psychic, clairvoyant, esper, mystic, mentalist, spiritualist, spiritist, rappist, medium, channeler, agent, vessel and 57 more...
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