prognostic

1. Of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.

• foretelling
• predictive

• French: pronostique
• Italian: prognostico
• Portuguese: prognóstico
• Spanish: pronóstico

prognostic (plural prognostics)

1. (rare, medicine) prognosis
   • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part I:

     There are several opinions as to what he meant

     But no one considers it a happy prognosis.

2. A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.

   Careful observers may foretell the hour

   (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show’r.

   While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o’er

   Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Jonathan Swift

3. A prediction of the future.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

4. One who predicts the future.

• (sign) indication, sign, omen, foretelling, prediction

• prognostatic
• prognosis
• prognosticable
• prognosticate