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prognostically

prognostically adverb: in prognostic terms.

Adverb

prognostically (not comparable)

  1. In prognostic terms.
    • 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...1916, Bernard Glueck, Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
    • Some began to whisper that prognostically she'd passed her prime.2005 April 8, Michael Miner, “BATgirl Returns; Pioneer's New Frontier”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of prognostically

From prognostic + -ally.

Questions about prognostically

What does prognostically mean?
Prognostically means in prognostic terms.
What part of speech is prognostically?
Prognostically is an adverb.

Words near prognostically in the dictionary

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

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