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• n  someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)

• For the brothers are about to embark on a sea of troubles that even the Ancient Greek's grim prognosticator might have hesitated to conjure up.
• His analysis sometimes depends on strained emphases, and his career record as a prognosticator is mixed, but his book is an indispensable presentation of the case against things as .
• Or as Larry Sabato, a political prognosticator at the University of Virginia, put it, "Republicans have to worry that this tide could turn into a tsunami by November.

• forecaster
• predictor
• soothsayer

News & Articles

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• Columnist: Packers predicted to go to Super Bowl
  Read which national prognosticator says Green Bay will play for its fifth Lombardi trophy, and who they'll go up against in the biggest game in American sports. (Yes, we know it's eight months away.)
  June 10, 2013 - TMJ4 Milwaukee

Quotes

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• Mike Thibault in USA Today
  I guess I'm not much of a prognosticator, because I thought we would play our best game of the series today, and we played our worst,said Connecticut coach Mike Thibault, who wrote a series of unflattering statistics on the locker room...
• Kevin Millar in Baltimore Sun
  Tell Schmuck to stick to writing. He's no NCAA basketball prognosticator,Millar said, fully aware that 11th-seeded Kansas State upset the sixth-seeded Trojans, 80-67. "He comes up to me and says, 'USC's a sleeper.' Yeah, OK. I look up and...
• Wayne Allyn Root in CNSNews.com
  They include Wayne Allyn Root, described on his website as "the most prolific and recognized sports oddsmaker/prognosticator in American television history"; Daniel Imperato, a "global business person" from West Palm Beach, Fla., and Mike...