Word Meanings - PROGNOSTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROGNOSTIC)
- Adumbration
- Shadow
- foreshadowing
- presage
- prognostic
- delineation
- premonition
- hint
- sketch
- prototype
- suggestion
- Indication
- Sign
- token
- manifestation
- evidence
- demonstration
- note
- symptom
- proof
- mark
- Presage
- Omen
- indication
- Token
- memorial
- expression
- symbol
- emblem
- prefiguration
- badge
- type
- wonder
- signal
Related words: (words related to PROGNOSTIC)
- FORESHADOW
To shadow or typi Dryden. - SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry. - BADGELESS
Having no badge. Bp. Hall. - PROGNOSTICABLE
Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne. - PROGNOSTICATOR
One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13. - SHADOWY
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon - SIGNALIZE
1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship - BADGE
A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. (more info) AS. beág, beáh, bracelet, collar, crown, OS b in comp., AS. b to bow, 1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; - BADGERING
1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. - WONDERSTRUCK
Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden. - SUGGESTION
Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested; - WONDER
Etym: 1. To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Swift. We cease to wonder at what we understand. Johnson. - SYMBOLISM
The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system - DELINEATION
1. The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from - EMBLEMIZE
To represent by an emblem; to emblematize. - MEMORIAL DAY
A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the - WONDERFUL
Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n. - TOKENLESS
Without a token. - PROOF-PROOF
Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley. - EVIDENCER
One whi gives evidence. - INEVIDENCE
Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow. - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - COINDICATION
One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease. - SELF-REPROOF
The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment. - HIGH-PROOF
1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak. - PLOT-PROOF
Secure against harm by plots. Shak. - BLOCK SIGNAL
One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.