prognosticate

Other forms of prognosticate

past tense

prognosticated·

present participle

prognosticating·

third person

prognosticates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prognosticate

What does prognosticate mean?

prognosticate means "make a prediction about; tell in advance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prognosticate?

prognosticate has 4 syllables: prog-no-sti-cate. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /ˌpɹɑɡˈnɑstəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for prognosticate?

Close synonyms include predict, foretell, call, forebode, anticipate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prognosticate a common word?

prognosticate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with prognosticate?

34 words rhyme with prognosticate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.