Can Prediction Be a Verb?

It comes from a Latin term that means “foretelling.” Prediction is the noun form of the verb predict, which is formed from the prefix pre-, meaning “before,” and the root dic-, meaning “to say.”

How do you use predict in a sentence?

Predicted sentence example
  1. None of the evils predicted appeared. ...
  2. As Sarah predicted , he possessed incredible self-control. ...
  3. You could not have predicted Logan would die any more than I did one of those patients. ...
  4. Clerk Maxwell, who predicted that the effect should be independent of the density within wide limits.

What do you call a prediction?

prognostication, prophecy. (also prophesy), soothsaying, vaticination.

James H. Sterling

James H. Sterling

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