Foreboding vs Prognostic - What's the difference?
foreboding | prognostic | Synonyms |
A sense of evil to come.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
(rare, medicine) prognosis
A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
A prediction of the future.
* Macaulay
One who predicts the future.
Foreboding is a synonym of prognostic.
As nouns the difference between foreboding and prognostic
is that foreboding is a sense of evil to come while prognostic is (rare|medicine) prognosis.As adjectives the difference between foreboding and prognostic
is that foreboding is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty while prognostic is of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.As a verb foreboding
is .foreboding
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Alternative forms
* forboding (much less commonly used)Noun
(en noun)- A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
Synonyms
* auguryAdjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)prognostic
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Alternative forms
* prognostick (obsolete)Synonyms
* foretelling * predictiveNoun
(en noun)- (Parr)
- 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
- The choice of a successor was no light matter. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.