- prognosis, forecast - a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop
--1 is a kind of prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication
--1 has particulars: financial forecast; weather forecast, weather outlookDerived forms: verb prognosticate2, verb prognosticate1 - prognosis, prospect, medical prognosis - a prediction of the course of a disease
--2 is a kind of medical diagnosis