Misprognosticate

Quick meaning: Misprognosticate is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To make an incorrect prediction.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To make an incorrect prediction.

Example Sentences

Misprognosticating pundits — most famously ABC's Sam Donaldson, who declared days into the scandal: " This thing is not going to drag out ” —remain unbowed.

[…] were Victims of a basic confusion between religion and nationalism which led them to misinterpret past Jewish history, to misunderstand present Jewish needs, and to misprognosticate […]

My point, which has been entirely lost or misplaced, is that no one can predict the future, not even I can, which is why I said: "I expected inflation with the post 2008 printing of money." Listening to wild voices in the wilderness made me misprognosticate the state of the economy.

On the other hand, if you use a lower grade of stimulation (i.E. 1% citric acid) and the same critical value for choosing treatment or not, you will still misprognosticate 2 patients but treat no fewer than 6 patients ( i.e. almost 16 % ) unnecessarily, and wrongly believe that you have found a very good kind of treatment, as can be seen in Fig. 7.

Word Forms

• misprognosticates
• misprognosticating
• misprognosticated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misinfer, misconverge, miscommunicate, misplan, misapprehend, misdetermine.

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