prognosticating

prognosticating is the present participle and gerund of prognosticate.

Meaning of prognosticate

prognosticate (third-person singular simple present prognosticates, present participle prognosticating, simple past and past participle prognosticated)

(transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
- Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.
Synonyms:

foretell, prophesy
(transitive) To presage, betoken.
- The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.
Synonyms:

foretoken, foreshadow, portend

prognosticating (comparative more prognosticating, superlative most prognosticating)

Of something that predicts or forecasts.
- 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...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

comparative	more prognosticating
superlative	most prognosticating

What does prognosticating mean?: Prognosticating means of something that predicts or forecasts.
What is prognosticating the present participle and gerund of?: Prognosticating is the present participle and gerund of prognosticate.
What part of speech is prognosticating?: Prognosticating is an adjective.

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