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prognosticable

prognosticable adjective: capable of being prognosticated or foretold; predictable.

Adjective

prognosticable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being prognosticated or foretold; predictable.
    • it is not reasonable from variable and unstable causes to derive a fixed and constant effect, and such are the causes of this inundation, which cannot indeed be regular, and therefore their effects not prognosticable1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin of prognosticable

From prognosticate + -able.

Questions about prognosticable

What does prognosticable mean?
Prognosticable means capable of being prognosticated or foretold; predictable.
What part of speech is prognosticable?
Prognosticable is an adjective.

Words near prognosticable in the dictionary

  1. prognoses
  2. prognosing
  3. prognosis
  4. prognostes
  5. prognostic
  6. prognosticable
  7. prognostical
  8. prognostically
  9. prognosticant
  10. prognosticants
  11. prognosticate

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